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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham
lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | Truth was still going strong in the years when CEH
wrote for it (it survived, indeed, through various transformations until 1957), though Labouchere was denied a ministerial post because the weekly had drawn Queen Victoria |
| Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL
wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain... |
| Textual Production | Lydia Howard Sigourney | LHS
commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament
in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria
's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life. Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson. 291-4 |
| Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | In May 1898 and in 1899 AS
addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's
and Bedford College
. On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 223 |
| Textual Production | Constance Lytton | In the last few months of her life CL
worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria
's... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | CN
published A Letter to the Queen
on Lord Chancellor Cranworth
's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill). Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing. 385 Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing. 33 Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 249 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Adelaide Procter | |
| 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. 47 |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
published Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, an account of the |
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1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
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October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
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January 1853
Following Napoleon III
's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...
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1854
Queen Victoria
sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton
.
10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...
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10 June 1854
Queen Victoria
reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
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1855
When Napoleon III
and his wife, the Empress Eugénie
, visited Queen Victoria
, Eugénie brought the first crinoline to England with her.
29 January 1856: Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross...
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29 January 1856
Queen Victoria
instituted the Victoria Cross for acts of conspicuous valour.
May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
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May 1856
Ellen Terry
made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre
, watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
.
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...
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1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
1858: Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to become the...
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1858
Queen Victoria
chose Ottawa to become the capital of Canada.
9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...
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9 April 1858
Queen Victoria
signed the royal charter giving London University
(then comprised of two schools, University College
and King's College
) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
5 August 1858: The first effective transatlantic telegraph...
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5 August 1858
The first effective transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. During the celebrations, Queen Victoria
and President James Buchanan
exchanged messages over the cable.
4 May 1874: Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler, exhibited...
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4 May 1874
Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler
, exhibited her painting Roll Call at the Royal Academy
; it was bought by Queen Victoria
.
October 1860: Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn; or, The...
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October 1860
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