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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Eliza Cook | The subsidiary poems, in many different (but all simple) stanza forms, deal in love, death, separation, self-sacrifice, and nostalgia. Together, love-songs and laments for times past predominate (old is a plangent word in EC |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Marie Corelli | As Janet Casey
reports, Nearly half of her books were international best-sellers, and it was not unusual for a new Corelli novel to sell out on its first day of publication. Nufftus, William, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 156. Gale Research. 156: 87 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | In a grand-daughter's satirical words the Ritchies and Thackerays were one of those now old-fashioned families with uncles and cousins meting out justice in India, who spent their lives in carefully weighing in the scales... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
wrote regularly for the new shilling monthly Macmillan's Magazine; she later reviewed for it Queen Victoria
's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. chronology, 99, 134 |
| Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | Two of the essays deal directly with women's economic independence. About Money argues that every woman ought to be a woman of business Craik, Dinah Mulock. About Money and Other Things. Macmillan. 7 |
| 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 | 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)... |
| Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Downing | HD
composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria
's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library
. 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Isabella Duberly | Queen Victoria
, with Prince Albert
and their eldest daughter
, reviewed the Eighth Hussars
at Portsmouth on their return from the Crimean War. She bowed deeply to FID
, though she did not speak to her. Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xlviii. xxxiii-xxxiv |
| Publishing | Frances Isabella Duberly | During her time in CrimeaFID
kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina
(now British Library
Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to... |
| Dedications | Frances Isabella Duberly | Francis Marx
toned down a good deal of her criticism of military incompetence in high places, whose deficiencies bore hard on soldiers in the field. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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
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