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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
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|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Virginia Woolf | Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 75-6 |
| 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. 2: 108; I. 5 |
| 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 | 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. prelims |
| 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, pp. 281-6. 282 |
| Residence | G. B. Stern | Until she was fourteen she grew up in Holland Park, London. She remembered watching Queen Victoria
's funeral procession pass. Then, in face of family financial crisis, this house was disposed of, and... |
| Residence | Fanny Kingsley | |
| Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt
. In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural... |
| Residence | Flora Thompson | After Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, FT
made what was for her a radical move: she left north Oxfordshire, where her life so far had been entirely centred, to work at Grayshott in Hampshire. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 48, 50 |
| Residence | Harriett Mozley | |
| Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
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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