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 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.
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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.
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...
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC wrote regularly for the new shilling monthly Macmillan's Magazine; she later reviewed for it Queen Victoria 's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
chronology, 99, 134
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Occupation Kate Marsden
KM , seeking support for her work toward curing leprosy, was presented to Queen Victoria at Marlborough House.
Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 1859–1931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, pp. 63-92.
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Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Record Press.
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