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.

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Textual Features Augusta Gregory
The overtly Nationalist play is set in 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, in Mayo. Cathleen, a mysterious old woman who enters the play as a wandering beggar, represents the country of Ireland...
Textual Features Naomi Royde-Smith
These are cheerfully celebratory in tone. Paddington Station, Travellers and Fashions: An Unwritten Romance ends by quoting official directives not to allow Queen Victoria to be alarmed by knowing the speed of the royal...
Textual Features Margaret Forster
This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research...
Textual Features Ann Hawkshaw
The poems in this volume are generally didactic, teaching the importance of religious faith and moral virtues. The Oak Tree finds in the tree's slow growth a common parable for patience and diligence, which may...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
Textual Features Eliza Cook
The subsidiary poems, in many different (but all simple) stanza forms, deal in love, death, separation, self-sacrifice, and nostalgia. Together, love-songs and laments for times past predominate (old is a plangent word in EC
Textual Features Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The unfortunate Lady Flora was headline news. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria 's mother, she had been suspected of illicit pregnancy. It turned out (after medical examination and humiliating publicity) that she had a disease...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols.
2: 108; I. 5
Yet...
Textual Features Ethel Smyth
These limitations, she wrote, were a severe hindrance to the pursuit of an artistic career: The whole English attitude towards women in fields of art is ludicrous and uncivilised. There is no sex in art...
Textual Features Dorothy Whipple
DW begins the book endearingly with her repeated commands to her self to go back in time, with the unwillingness of her self to leave the present, and the way it finally runs far away...
Textual Features Sarah Stickney Ellis
This volume, published as by the author of The Women of England, is dedicated, by permission,
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Wives of England. Fisher, 1843.
prelims
to the Queen . SSE begins by addressing unmarried women, admonishing them not to regard marriage...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius , with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who...
Textual Features Emily Faithfull
EF outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions,
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 281-6.
282
explaining that the...

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