Queen Victoria

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Standard Name: Victoria, Queen
Birth Name: Alexandrina Victoria
Royal Name: Queen Victoria
Titled: Queen Victoria, Empress of India
Used Form: Princess Victoria
From a young age, Queen Victoria wrote extensive journals, two of which were published with great success during her lifetime. Other selections from her journals, collections of her letters, and drawings and watercolours from her sketchbooks were published posthumously.
Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Charlotte Eliza Humphry
Truth was still going strong in the years when CEH wrote for it (it survived, indeed, through various transformations until 1957), though Labouchere was denied a ministerial post because the weekly had drawn Queen Victoria
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Eliza Humphry
In the issue reprinted in New Zealand, Madge discusses Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee and describes in detail the luncheon-table set for the queen. She also suggests that old kid gloves can be repurposed into...
Textual Production Mary Catherine Hume
MCH published two letters on the Contagious Diseases Acts and related issues, addressing one to Queen Victoria and one to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 104
Reception Mary Howitt
In the year this volume was published Queen Victoria sent one of her ministers, George Henry Byng , a copy of it. Joanna Baillie praised it warmly.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
111
None of MH 's hymns, however, appears in modern collections.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
140-1
Family and Intimate relationships Laurence Hope
She was said to be twenty-three when she married Nicolson, who was then forty-six. Her new husband always called her Violet. He was an accomplished linguist, proficient in Baluchi, Persian, Pashto, and Brahui, was...
Textual Features Ann Hawkshaw
The poems in this volume are generally didactic, teaching the importance of religious faith and moral virtues. The Oak Tree finds in the tree's slow growth a common parable for patience and diligence, which may...
Friends, Associates Augusta Gregory
With her marriage, AG became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria , Heinrich Schliemann , and James Froude shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning and Henry James on...
Textual Features Augusta Gregory
The overtly Nationalist play is set in 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, in Mayo. Cathleen, a mysterious old woman who enters the play as a wandering beggar, represents the country of Ireland...
politics Elizabeth Grant
Her journal evinces a keen interest not only in matters that concerned her directly (such as the impact of the Irish famine) but also in broader domestic and international politics (such as Chartism and the...
Reception Catherine Gore
This ran to seven performances on first appearance, and to six editions, the last of them during the 1880s. Revivals included a command performance for the future Queen Victoria on 15 August 1839.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
15-16
Publishing Maud Gonne
The United Irishman carried what became MG 's famous essay The Famine Queen, which arraigns Queen Victoria as responsible for Ireland's exploitation by England—the historic Great Famine and present-day evictions—and calls for a hostile...
politics Maud Gonne
After coming into her inheritance, MG put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life...
Textual Features Rumer Godden
She traced the breed from ancient China (though the London cultural attaché of Communist China denied all knowledge of these luxurious parasites) through its arrival in the west in the person of the canine...
Leisure and Society Elinor Glyn
About a year later, EG and her husband were present to see Queen Victoria 's body in its triple coffin crossing London on 2 February 1901.
Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton.
97
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Queen Victoria
I felt that I was...
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG wrote a memorial to the Queen from the women of Nottingham about the Corn Laws controversy.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
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