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.
Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Catherine Hume
MCH published two letters on the Contagious Diseases Acts and related issues, addressing one to Queen Victoria and one to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone .
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.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 104
Textual Production Charlotte Eliza Humphry
Truth was still going strong in the years when CEH wrote for it (it survived, indeed, through various transformations until 1957), though Labouchere was denied a ministerial post because the weekly had drawn Queen Victoria
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Eliza Humphry
In the issue reprinted in New Zealand, Madge discusses Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee and describes in detail the luncheon-table set for the queen. She also suggests that old kid gloves can be repurposed into...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kathleen E. Innes
The book contains additional chapters on local charities, the festivities on Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee, the Great Fire, social clubs founded since 1900, and the erection of the Village Centre built by voluntary labour.
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Naomi Jacob
The Shakespeare allusion is curious and suggestive. Antonio is replying to Shylock's famous speech claiming humanity for Jews; he justifies his own racial or religious hostility, and suggests that usury can only be pracised on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc to Queen Victoria .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 302-3
Reception Ellen Johnston
She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria .
Publishing Ellen Johnston
The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria , Benjamin Disraeli , Robert Napier , and Lord Raglan , as well as other members of the nobility and the army...
Family and Intimate relationships Anna Kavan
Her mother, Helen (Bright) Woods , was the illegitimate grand-daughter of Dr Richard Bright , physician to Queen Victoria and discoverer of Bright's disease. She was a seventeen-year old beauty with no fortune when she...
Travel Fanny Kemble
FK visited her family in London, witnessing the opening of Queen Victoria 's first parliament in late December. She left England, however, before the coronation the following June, pregnant for a second time.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
123, 125-7
Literary responses Fanny Kemble
The book quickly became a best-seller, but elicited negative reviews.Edgar Allan Poe spoke against the young female narrator for exhibiting too much self-confidence, but conceded that the writing had vivacity of style.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
84
The...
Residence Fanny Kingsley
In June 1878, Queen Victoria offered FK rooms at Hampton Court Palace, which she declined. FK lived in a sixteenth-century manor house at Tachbrook Mallory in Warwickshire for the rest of her life. The...
Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
FAK reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed...

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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