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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE justifies her examination of women's domestic life by comparing it to that enjoyed by Queen Victoria . She attempts to cut across class lines: it is the privilege of the humblest, as well as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering,
Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol.
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but she nevertheless...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Emily Shore
The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ada Cambridge
The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB wrote for children from time to time. For the 1887 Jubilee, she wrote as Aunt Belinda a children's parable of Queen Victoria 's reign in an account of the reign of Queen Hermione of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Eliza Humphry
In the issue reprinted in New Zealand, Madge discusses Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee and describes in detail the luncheon-table set for the queen. She also suggests that old kid gloves can be repurposed into...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB published an account of the progress of women's struggle and status during the first half of the twentieth century: Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 23
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
In Coronation SummerAT produced a carefully-researched historical novel set in London in 1838, the year of Queen Victoria 's coronation.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
114, 110-11
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG wrote a memorial to the Queen from the women of Nottingham about the Corn Laws controversy.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 177
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES published another historical biography, Victoria of England; this became a best-seller.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production Adelaide Procter
Her mother encouraged her love of poetry, before AP could write, by making for her daughter a little album into which she copied her favourite passages. Dickens commented: It looks as if she had carried...
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...

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3-4 November 1839: Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Mo...

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3-4 November 1839

Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Monmouthshire.

1 February 1840: Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders...

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1 February 1840

Death sentences on Welsh Chartist leaders were commuted to transportation for life.

Early 1840: At the time of Queen Victoria's marriage...

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Early 1840

At the time of Queen Victoria 's marriage to Prince Albert , the Devon industry of hand-crafted lace-making had so far declined that it was difficult to obtain enough for her wedding dress.

1 May 1840: The first adhesive postage stamps went on...

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1 May 1840

The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain in penny and twopenny denominations which bore the profile of Queen Victoria .

21 November 1840: Prince Albert's attendance at Queen Victoria's...

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21 November 1840

Prince Albert 's attendance at Queen Victoria 's labour, in London, increased the popularity of fathers attending births.

13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...

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13 June 1842

Queen Victoria first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.

12 June 1843: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part...

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12 June 1843

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert became part of the theatre-going public when they visited the Drury Lane Theatre in state.

1844: The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers's...

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1844

The anonymous publication of Robert Chambers 's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation influenced the evolutionary thinking of Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace .

1847: Professor James Young Simpson first used...

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1847

Professor James Young Simpson first used chloroform to aid a woman in childbirth in London.

4 May 1847: Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, gave...

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4 May 1847

Jenny Lind , the Swedish Nightingale, gave her first London performance at Her Majesty's Theatre .

1 May 1848: Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not...

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1 May 1848

Queen's College for Women (a secondary, not a post-secondary institution) was founded in London to educate prospective governesses and improve girls' education generally.

1849: Sir David Brewster invented the stereosc...

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1849

Sir David Brewster invented the stereoscope.

1850: From this date, anaesthetic was regularly...

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1850

From this date, anaesthetic was regularly used in the practice of gynaecology, gaining wide popularity after 1870.

1 June 1850: Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his...

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1 June 1850

Alfred Tennyson anonymously published his poetic sequence In Memoriam.

1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...

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1851

Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.

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