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.
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | Her mother, Elizabeth Frances (Reed) Humphreys
, was the sister of General Sir Thomas Reed
, an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria
. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput. 99, 197-8 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
's father, painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema
, received from Queen Victorialetters of denization making him a British subject. Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton. 43 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | Her mother, Helen (Bright) Woods
, was the illegitimate grand-daughter of Dr Richard Bright
, physician to Queen Victoria
and discoverer of Bright's disease. She was a seventeen-year old beauty with no fortune when she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Marsh | Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland
(physician to |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
had one elder sister and four elder brothers: Ralph (b. 1857), Charlotte (b. 1858), Sydney (b. 1861), Walter (b. 1862), and Harry (b. 1864). As an adult she was close to Charlotte and Sydney... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's father, the Reverend Reginald Windsor
, was Baron Buckhurst and later seventh Earl De La Warr. On succeeding to the title he took the surname of Sackville, rather than Sackville-West. He died on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Steele | AS
's brother Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood
was an army officer who was responsible for negotiating the Treaty of Pretoria, signed on 5 April 1881, at the end of the Boer War. Popular with Queen Victoria |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Naden | Hughes notes that this day was Queen Victoria
's Jubilee, so that CN
grieved while the rest of the country was rejoicing. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's father, Sir Richard Strachey
, was born on 24 July 1817 at Sutton Court at Stowey in Somerset. He joined the Bombay Engineers
at the age of nineteen and pursued an immensely... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | AM
's sister Elizabeth
, later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1874... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton |
Timeline
3-4 November 1839: Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Mo...
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3-4 November 1839
Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Monmouthshire.
1 February 1840: Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders...
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1 February 1840
Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders were commuted to transportation for life.
Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...
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Early 1840
At the time of Queen Victoria
's marriage to Prince Albert
, the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.
1 May 1840: The first adhesive postage stamps went on...
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1 May 1840
The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain in penny and twopenny denominations which bore the profile of Queen Victoria
.
21 November 1840: Prince Albert's attendance at Queen Victoria's...
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21 November 1840
Prince Albert
's attendance at Queen Victoria
's labour, in London, increased the popularity of fathers attending births.
13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...
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13 June 1842
Queen Victoria
first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.
12 June 1843: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part...
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12 June 1843
Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
became part of the theatre-going public when they visited the Drury Lane Theatre
in state.
1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...
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1844
The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers
's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin
and Alfred Wallace
.
1847: Professor James Young Simpson first used...
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1847
Professor James Young Simpson
first used chloroform to aid a woman in childbirth in London.
4 May 1847: Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, gave...
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4 May 1847
1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...
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1 May 1848
Queen's College for Women
(a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.
1849: Sir David Brewster invented the stereosc...
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1849
Sir David Brewster
invented the stereoscope.
1850: From this date, anaesthetic was regularly...
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1850
From this date, anaesthetic was regularly used in the practice of gynaecology, gaining wide popularity after 1870.
1 June 1850: Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his...
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1 June 1850
Alfred Tennyson
anonymously published his poetic sequence In Memoriam.
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
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1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
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