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
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...
Publishing Sarah Tytler
Of ST 's other biographies, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen came out in two volumes in 1883 and 1885 (having also been published in parts), and was quickly reprinted at Toronto...
Publishing Noel Streatfeild
Its longer title was Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and her Children's Books. NS then wrote an introduction for Nesbit's Long Ago When I Was Young, when it finally reached posthumous appearance...
Publishing Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In 1838 Dacre addressed a sonnet to the new young queen , to accompany a gift of a copy of her Translations from the Italian. The queen remembered this gift in 1849.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
251
Publishing Agnes Strickland
The volume was published by J. Green , who contributed a musical arrangement for each poem.
Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada.
AS continued her professional relationship with Green , publishing another patriotic song, The Merry Queen of England, sometime after 1832.
Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada.
Publishing Marina Warner
MW published Queen Victoria 's Sketchbook, an edition of the queen's private journals and watercolour illustrations.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 284
Publishing Charlotte Mew
CM 's first published poems, two anonymous V. R. I. sonnets, appeared in Temple Bar following Queen Victoria 's death.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, pp. 43-7.
45
Publishing Dorothy Brett
The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...
Publishing Frances Isabella Duberly
During her time in CrimeaFID kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina (now British Library Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to...
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
Reception Ellen Johnston
She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria .
Reception Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The column of Our Weekly Gossip argued that selecting a woman would be an honourable testimonial to the individual, a fitting recognition of the remarkable place which the women of England have taken in the...
Reception Catherine Gore
This ran to seven performances on first appearance, and to six editions, the last of them during the 1880s. Revivals included a command performance for the future Queen Victoria on 15 August 1839.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34.
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Reception Robert Browning
The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among...

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