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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
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Textual Production | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP
never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Croker | MC
published, with her name, A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria
). Croker, Margaret. A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. Francis Westley. title-page |
| Textual Production | Linda Villari | LV
's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company
. LV
wrote it at Florence and... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's The Captive of Kensington Palace, a historical novel published under this name and dealing with Princess Victoria
's childhood and adolescence, initiated the Queen Victoria series. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Plaidy, Jean. Epitaph for Three Women. Putnam. prelims OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Victoria Cross | VC
's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)... |
| Textual Production | Emilie Barrington | Its full title was A St. Luke of the Nineteenth Century, contrasts an old-fashioned story about a few gentlemen and gentlewomen, and some others, who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Chaste... |
| Textual Production | Maria Callcott | Some of MC
's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch
in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library
. A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her... |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Soon after the new queen's wedding, AS
published Queen Victoria
from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
Timeline
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
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October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
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January 1853
Following Napoleon III
's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...
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1854
Queen Victoria
sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton
.
10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...
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10 June 1854
Queen Victoria
reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
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1855
When Napoleon III
and his wife, the Empress Eugénie
, visited Queen Victoria
, Eugénie brought the first crinoline to England with her.
29 January 1856: Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross...
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29 January 1856
Queen Victoria
instituted the Victoria Cross for acts of conspicuous valour.
May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
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May 1856
Ellen Terry
made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre
, watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
.
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...
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1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
1858: Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to become the...
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1858
Queen Victoria
chose Ottawa to become the capital of Canada.
9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...
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9 April 1858
Queen Victoria
signed the royal charter giving London University
(then comprised of two schools, University College
and King's College
) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
5 August 1858: The first effective transatlantic telegraph...
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5 August 1858
The first effective transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. During the celebrations, Queen Victoria
and President James Buchanan
exchanged messages over the cable.
4 May 1874: Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler, exhibited...
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4 May 1874
Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler
, exhibited her painting Roll Call at the Royal Academy
; it was bought by Queen Victoria
.
October 1860: Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn; or, The...
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October 1860
Texts
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