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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Frere | Upon their return, she and her sister were received at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | Her mother, born Elizabeth Harman, has been described as one of the most brilliant women of her generation and as the radical force in her marriage. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham |
Textual Features | Margaret Forster | This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research... |
Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
published a Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. 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. |
Literary responses | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The book received positive reviews. It was very popular with it readers, including Her Majesty
, who reputedly enjoyed it in spite of its feminist content. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 180 |
Textual Features | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her authors run from Jane Austen
and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Harriet Martineau
. Elizabeth Fry
, Mary Carpenter
, and Florence Nightingale
represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel
and Mary Somerville
science, and... |
Anthologization | Violet Fane | In 1901 her poetry was included (with that of others, including Flora Annie Steel
, specifically mentioned in the subtitle) in The Passing of Victoria
; the Poets' Tribute, edited by John Alexander Hammerton
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Faithfull | Charlotte Robinson
was EF
's intimate friend, and likely her lesbian lover, in her later life. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 85 |
Textual Features | Emily Faithfull | EF
outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions, Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 281-6. 282 |
Dedications | Emily Faithfull | The most important publication of the Victoria Press
to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter
and dedicated by permission to... |
Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
justifies her examination of women's domestic life by comparing it to that enjoyed by Queen Victoria
. She attempts to cut across class lines: it is the privilege of the humblest, as well as... |
Textual Features | Sarah Stickney Ellis | This volume, published as by the author of The Women of England, is dedicated, by permission, Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Wives of England. Fisher. prelims |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 10 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | On 4 October 1864 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
married Edith Villiers
, who had a yearly income of £6,000. Together they had three daughters and four sons. After her husband's death, Edith fell into financial... |
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