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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Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Living once again with her parents in London, Lucie Austin began an active social life. She was introduced to Queen Victoria
, met and became friendly with Caroline Norton
, and was introduced to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | In a grand-daughter's satirical words the Ritchies and Thackerays were one of those now old-fashioned families with uncles and cousins meting out justice in India, who spent their lives in carefully weighing in the scales... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecil Frances Alexander | Her mother, Elizabeth Frances (Reed) Humphreys
, was the sister of General Sir Thomas Reed
, an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria
. Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput. 99, 197-8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | After the widowed Mrs Bentinck's stepson |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | LAT
's father, painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema
, received from Queen Victorialetters of denization making him a British subject. Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton. 43 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kavan | Her mother, Helen (Bright) Woods
, was the illegitimate grand-daughter of Dr Richard Bright
, physician to Queen Victoria
and discoverer of Bright's disease. She was a seventeen-year old beauty with no fortune when she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Marsh | Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland
(physician to |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Faithfull | Charlotte Robinson
was EF
's intimate friend, and likely her lesbian lover, in her later life. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 85 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
had one elder sister and four elder brothers: Ralph (b. 1857), Charlotte (b. 1858), Sydney (b. 1861), Walter (b. 1862), and Harry (b. 1864). As an adult she was close to Charlotte and Sydney... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's father, the Reverend Reginald Windsor
, was Baron Buckhurst and later seventh Earl De La Warr. On succeeding to the title he took the surname of Sackville, rather than Sackville-West. He died on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Steele | AS
's brother Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood
was an army officer who was responsible for negotiating the Treaty of Pretoria, signed on 5 April 1881, at the end of the Boer War. Popular with Queen Victoria |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's father, Sir Richard Strachey
, was born on 24 July 1817 at Sutton Court at Stowey in Somerset. He joined the Bombay Engineers
at the age of nineteen and pursued an immensely... |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Hope | She was said to be twenty-three when she married Nicolson, who was then forty-six. Her new husband always called her Violet. He was an accomplished linguist, proficient in Baluchi, Persian, Pashto, and Brahui, was... |
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