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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Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | The tribute was much appreciated by the Queen
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 111 Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 165 |
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 |
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 |
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 | |
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. 180 |
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... |
Leisure and Society | Elinor Glyn | About a year later, EG
and her husband
were present to see Queen Victoria
's body in its triple coffin crossing London on 2 February 1901. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton. 97 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Queen Victoria |
Leisure and Society | Sara Jeannette Duncan | Canadian SJD
was presented to Queen Victoria
, a moment in her career which she considered triumphal. Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi. 184 |
Leisure and Society | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
was formally presented at Buckingham Palace in London as part of her coming out, which was a young girl's rite of passage into high society. She was presented to the Princess of Wales
instead... |
Leisure and Society | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz)
was presented at court to Queen Victoria
, marking her coming out in London and Dublin high society. Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora. 21-2 |
Leisure and Society | Charlotte Barnard | CB
was presented to Queen Victoria
on 29 May 1856. Smith, Phyllis. The Story of Claribel. J. W. Ruddock & Sons Ltd., Lincoln. 57 |
Leisure and Society | Augusta Ada Byron | |
Leisure and Society | Mary Boyle | MB
had a lifelong interest in the theatre; she attended performances frequently and she, her family, and friends were frequently involved in acting and producing plays privately. On one occasion in 1837 she found herself... |
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