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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Occupation Kate Marsden
At Balmoral in Scotland, KM was again presented to Queen Victoria , who gave her a gold angel-shaped brooch in recognition of her pursuit of a cure for leprosy.
Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, pp. 123-40.
129
Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
145
Occupation Florence Nightingale
On 28 October the article Who Is Mrs. Nightingale? appeared in The Examiner. It was reprinted two days later in the Times.
Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press.
167-8, 241n19
The biographical sketch compares FN to the reigning monarch
Occupation Alfred Tennyson
Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan.
288
Occupation Ann Bridge
Of being a diplomatic wife AB wrote, the job is a job, like any other, and has to be well done as regards dressing, entertaining, and those things that require domestic staff and some degree...
Other Life Event Harriet Martineau
She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
2: 125
Later, she attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Other Life Event Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria wrote to her during the war, and after the peace spoke highly of her achievements abroad. The monarch sent her a personal letter and an engraved, enameled, and jeweled brooch designed by the...
politics Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Her sympathies reached far beyond Ireland. In Geneva in 1819 she delighted in her first breath of the free air of a Republic, and she longed (though without much hope for the outcome) to contribute...
politics Maud Gonne
After coming into her inheritance, MG put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life...
politics Elizabeth Grant
Her journal evinces a keen interest not only in matters that concerned her directly (such as the impact of the Irish famine) but also in broader domestic and international politics (such as Chartism and the...
Author summary Adelaide Procter
AP 's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the...
Author summary Kate Marsden
A nurse and explorer, KM published a small but widely-circulated body of travel writing that at once documented her search for treatments for leprosy and served as tools for her to raise funds and awareness...
Publishing Ella Wheeler Wilcox
EWW was commissioned by the New York magazine the American to go to London and write a poem on the funeral of Queen Victoria : she wrote The Queen's Last Ride.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. The Worlds and I. Gay and Hancock.
195
Publishing Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB honoured her sovereign (who had succeeded to the throne on 20 June) by publishing The Young Queen in the Athenæum; the following week the same journal carried her Victoria 's Tears.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan.
28
Publishing Maud Gonne
The United Irishman carried what became MG 's famous essay The Famine Queen, which arraigns Queen Victoria as responsible for Ireland's exploitation by England—the historic Great Famine and present-day evictions—and calls for a hostile...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
MO 's final article for Blackwood's appeared: 'Tis Sixty Years Since, to mark the Jubilee of Queen Victoria .
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.

Timeline

23 June 1897: A state performance was held at Covent Garden's...

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23 June 1897

A state performance was held at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in honour of Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee. The programme included Tannhäuser, Romeo et Juliette and Les Huguenots.

1899: A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray, The...

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1899

A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray , The Forest Chapel, and Other Poems, was dedicated to Queen Victoria .

1 July 1900: Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's...

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1 July 1900

Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's Treat at Clonturk Park, Dublin, in retaliation for children's events held during the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in April of that year.

22 January 1901: Edward VII assumed the throne on the death...

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22 January 1901

Edward VII assumed the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria .

1902: Lucy Walford published her novel Charlot...

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1902

Lucy Walford published her novelCharlotte.

1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...

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1917

John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird and later Freya Stark ) took over Smith, Elder (publishers of Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Chanter , and Queen Victoria ).

1921: The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted...

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1921

The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted its first female member, Victoria Drummond , a god-daughter of Queen Victoria , who owed her start as an apprentice engineer to the First World War.

26 September 1934: The Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden...

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26 September 1934

The Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.

December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...

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December 1965

Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University .

6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...

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6 May 2009

The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud (the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.

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