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
Occupation Kate Marsden
At Balmoral in Scotland, KM was again presented to Queen Victoria , who gave her a gold angel-shaped brooch in recognition of her pursuit of a cure for leprosy.
Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, pp. 123-40.
129
Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
145
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
Occupation Ann Bridge
Of being a diplomatic wife AB wrote, the job is a job, like any other, and has to be well done as regards dressing, entertaining, and those things that require domestic staff and some degree...
Occupation Alfred Tennyson
Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan.
288
Occupation Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria 's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards...
Occupation Harriet Tytler
During the next six months she and her husband took nearly 500 photographs of locations associated with the Indian Mutiny. Two years later the Calotype photographs and paintings were taken to England and displayed...
Material Conditions of Writing Jane Porter
JP , after sitting half an hour in the rain in Pall Mall waiting to see Queen Victoria 's wedding procession pass, marked the occasion with a poem.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
80
Literary Setting Jean Plaidy
The later Plaidy novels centre on the lives of Europe's historical figures, from the Norman conquest, through the Renaissance, and to Victoria 's reign. This focus provides an immediate need to publish in a series...
Literary responses Fanny Kemble
The book quickly became a best-seller, but elicited negative reviews.Edgar Allan Poe spoke against the young female narrator for exhibiting too much self-confidence, but conceded that the writing had vivacity of style.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
84
The...
Literary responses Elizabeth Rigby
Her publisher arranged for Queen Victoria to have a copy and the monarch's reaction was relayed to Rigby: The Queen sat down and read it through without stopping.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 208
ER later allowed Victoria the...
Literary responses Margaret Roberts
Mary J. Y. Harris , biographer of Frances Mary Peard , calls this MR 's best-known novel, and says it was a favourite with Queen Victoria .
Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith.
16, 63
Literary responses Lucy Walford
Another response had a more immediate impact on LW : that of the monarch. Through correspondence with the Duchess of Roxburghe,
The duchess may be the seventy-year-old Susanna Stephenia , wife of the 6th Duke...
Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
FAK reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed...
Literary responses Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The book received positive reviews. It was very popular with it readers, including Her Majesty , who reputedly enjoyed it in spite of its feminist content.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
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Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went...

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