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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Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | |
Textual Production | Lettice Cooper | LC
issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time... |
Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
published another historical biography, Victoria
of England; this became a best-seller. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis. 47 |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
published Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, an account of the |
Textual Production | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET
to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria
's mourning for Prince Albert
. Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son. ix Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 214 |
Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | In the month of MO
's death there appeared Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, which she edited and published with eight other women to mark the queen's jubilee. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 304-5 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. |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
published Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, an account of the expansion of the |
Textual Production | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
kept a diary, from which her daughter quotes a passage about Queen Victoria
's death and the pathos of the end of the Victorian age. MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable. 111 |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | In other late poems she had celebrated Princess Victoria
(in 1836) and urged the United States to accept black people as equal to whites (in 1846). Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 428, 443-4 |
Textual Production | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
published Elizabeth
and Victoria
: From a Woman's Point of View in the feminist Victoria Magazine. Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett. 68 Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 134 |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | CM
, as the Author of English Hearts and English Hands, Brief Memories of the First Earl Cairns, etc., etc. and together with her niece L. E. O'Rorke
, commemorated Queen Victoria
's Golden Jubilee... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ada Cambridge | The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
wrote for children from time to time. For the 1887 Jubilee, she wrote as Aunt Belinda a children's parable of Queen Victoria
's reign in an account of the reign of Queen Hermione of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
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