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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
In the month of MO 's death there appeared Women Novelists of Queen Victoria 's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, which she edited and published with eight other women to mark the queen's jubilee.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
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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.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Ogilvy
These poems include The Rookery on the Hill, Grannie's Birthday, A Ditty in Praise of Good Wine, Allan Water, August 27th, 1887, Sleep the Sleep that Knows Not Waking,...
Leisure and Society Caroline Norton
The recently married Queen Victoria received CN at Court: a testimony to belief in her innocence, in the face of George Norton 's attempts to blacken her reputation.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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Textual Production Caroline Norton
CN published A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth 's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill).
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing.
385
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing.
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Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
249
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Norton
For a while after the separation CN pursued Melbourne with letters in an attempt to revive their intimacy, which in her isolation she sorely missed. He held her firmly at a distance. She accused him...
Reception Florence Nightingale
FN became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII ; Queen Victoria had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross.
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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
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...
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
FN visited the Queen and the Prince on 21 September 1856 at Balmoral, where she pleaded the case for military hospital reform. A few years later, the Queen offered her an apartment in Kensington...
Intertextuality and Influence E. Nesbit
It reprinted work already published in the Daily News, Pall Mall Gazette, Daily Chronicle, and Athenæum. Her Times obituary attributed its rhetorical patriotism to the influence of Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(5 May 1924): 16
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Naden
Hughes notes that this day was Queen Victoria 's Jubilee, so that CN grieved while the rest of the country was rejoicing.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son.
38
Publishing Dervla Murphy
Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys...
Residence Harriett Mozley
From the time of her marriage until early 1847, HM lived at Cholderton in Wiltshire, where her husband was rector. This village, lying under Beacon Hill on Salisbury Plain, felt distant from the...
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM published Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, an account of the expansion of the British Empire from Victoria 's accession to her jubilee in 1897. As a sibling volume to Pax Britannica (called the...
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM published Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, an account of the British Empire at its apogee, the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, a volume designed as one of a trilogy...

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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