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
Family and Intimate relationships Alice Meynell
AM 's sister Elizabeth , later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley (who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness ; the name of Queen Victoria headed the list of subscribers.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
54
It...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Ottoline Morrell
After the widowed Mrs Bentinck's stepson Arthur became the sixth Duke of Portland, Prime Minister Disraeli , whose career had been greatly assisted by the Bentincks, prevailed upon Queen Victoria to create her Baroness Bolsover...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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.
xxiii
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...
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.
169
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.
33
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
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