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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc
to Queen Victoria
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 302-3 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as... |
| 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. 19 |
| 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... |
| Travel | Martin Ross | MR
recorded her watching of Queen Victoria
's jubilee procession: she was most struck by the Indian princes, sparkling fit to blind you. The finest of the whole show, Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 44 Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 43-4 |
| Travel | Fanny Kemble | FK
visited her family in London, witnessing the opening of Queen Victoria
's first parliament in late December. She left England, however, before the coronation the following June, pregnant for a second time. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 123, 125-7 |
| Travel | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Like other nineteeth-century travellers (the trend is visible in Mary Brunton
in 1812) she visited social and charitable institutions—[s]chools, hospitals, prisons, and asylums—as well as historic houses, castles, and beauty spots. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 183 |
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