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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.
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| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a... |
| Textual Production | L. E. L. | LEL
's long poem entitled A Birthday Gift to Princess Victoria was published, officially as A Birthday Tribute, Addressed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, on attaining her Eighteenth Year. L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages. 33 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 Features | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The unfortunate Lady Flora was headline news. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria
's mother, she had been suspected of illicit pregnancy. It turned out (after medical examination and humiliating publicity) that she had a disease... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols. 2: 108; I. 5 |
| Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | These limitations, she wrote, were a severe hindrance to the pursuit of an artistic career: The whole English attitude towards women in fields of art is ludicrous and uncivilised. There is no sex in art... |
| 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, 1843. prelims |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Whipple | DW
begins the book endearingly with her repeated commands to her self to go back in time, with the unwillingness of her self to leave the present, and the way it finally runs far away... |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the... |
| 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, 1987, pp. 281-6. 282 |
| Textual Features | Ruth Rendell | Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria
's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a... |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius
, with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who... |
| 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, 1886. 7 |
| Textual Features | Rumer Godden | She traced the breed from ancient China (though the London cultural attaché of Communist China denied all knowledge of these luxurious parasites) through its arrival in the west in the person of the canine... |
| Textual Features | Marina Warner | The book includes text and images gathered from over fifty albums which Queen Victoria
kept from her girlhood (beginning 13 July 1832) until her death (22 July 1901). They present a multi-faceted picture of the... |
Timeline
1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...
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1885
Queen Victoria
sent a £500 donation to the Hospital for Women
in Soho Square.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
92
21 August 1885: The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the...
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21 August 1885
The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the age of sexual consent from thirteen to sixteen and criminalized both public and private sexual relations between males. It suppressed brothels and outlawed white slavery.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
159-60
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
311
1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...
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1886
Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch
and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
74, 85
1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...
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1886
Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch
and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
74, 85
1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...
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1886
Royal Holloway College
for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria
.
Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
38
Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth, editor. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986. Hambledon Press, 1990.
xix
Trickett, Rachel. “Women’s Education”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 5-14.
13
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974.
144
Dyhouse provides a date of 1883, but other sources agree on 1886.
1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1887
The institution which became Queen Mary College
was founded in London as the People's Palace
.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
174
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1619
9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...
Women writers item
9 April 1887
Following the appeal judgment which ordered her to cohabit with her husband, Dadaji Bhikaji
, a letter by Rukhmabai
appeared in the LondonTimes.
Burton, Antoinette. “Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain”. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, edited by George Robb and Nancy Erber, New York University Press, 1999, pp. 33-56.
44-8, 50
Late July 1889: The trial began in Liverpool of American...
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Late July 1889
The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick
on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
215-254
February 1890: Queen Victoria appointed twenty-two members,...
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February 1890
Queen Victoria
appointed twenty-two members, including royalty and commoners with experience in district nursing associations, to the Council of the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
; this group later became known as the Queen's...
By 1 November 1890: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,...
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By 1 November 1890
William Booth
, founder of the Salvation Army
, published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, a call for active Christianity and social reform.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
134
Higginbotham, Ann R. “Respectable Sinners: Salvation Army Rescue Work with Unmarried Mothers, 1884-1914”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 216-33.
217
Begbie, Harold. Life of William Booth. Macmillan, 1920.
122
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3288 (1890): 578
26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...
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26 November 1891
A private command performance of Mascagni
's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria
.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
97
10 May 1893: Queen Victoria opened the Imperial Institute...
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10 May 1893
Queen Victoria
opened the Imperial Institute of the Colonies and India
in South Kensington to encourage and represent the arts, manufacturing, and commerce.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
630-1
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
1 January 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal began operatio...
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1 January 1894
The Manchester Ship Canal began operation.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
139
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
321
10 February 1897: The Victorian Order of Nurses was founded...
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10 February 1897
The Victorian Order of Nurses
was founded to commemorate the Queen
's diamond jubilee.
“A Century of Caring”. Victorian Order of Nurses.
June 1897: Composer Edward Elgar's first London success...
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June 1897
Composer Edward Elgar
's first London success occurred with his Imperial March, composed for Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2025.
8: 125
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2025.
8: 336
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
317
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