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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Pandita Ramabai | Rachel L. Bodley
claims that this was read by (and influenced the opinions of) Queen Victoria
. Ramabai, Pandita. Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter. Kosambi, MeeraEditor & translator , Indiana University Press. 242n12 Bodley, Rachel L., and Pandita Ramabai. “Introduction”. The High-Caste Hindu Woman, Jas B. Rogers, p. i - xxiv. xvi, xviii |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Colin Campbell | On 5 May 1875 Gertrude Blood, later LCC
, was presented in the Queen
's Drawing Room at court: her formal entry into society. Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd. 11 |
| Leisure and Society | Caroline Norton | The recently married Queen Victoria
received CN
at Court: a testimony to belief in her innocence, in the face of George Norton
's attempts to blacken her reputation. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 169 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Fanny Aikin Kortright | |
| 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... |
Timeline
1861: Publisher S. Beeton began production of Queen,...
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1861
Publisher S. Beeton
began production of Queen, his successful women's magazine aimed at the rich and leisured classes.
1863: Germany and Denmark again clashed over the...
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1863
Germany and Denmark again clashed over the Schleswig-Holstein Duchies.
23 April 1863: Queen Victoria selected architect George...
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23 April 1863
Queen Victoria
selected architect George Gilbert Scott
's ornate design for the Albert Memorial.
1 August 1863: Queen Victoria, in a letter to The Ladies...
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1 August 1863
Queen Victoria
, in a letter to The Ladies of England, denounced the crinoline, calling it an indelicate, expensive, dangerous, and hideous article.
19 November 1867: Queen Victoria announced that the UK was...
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19 November 1867
Queen Victoria
announced that the UK was at war with Amhara.
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
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26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
October 1870: The General Council of Edinburgh University...
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October 1870
The General Council of Edinburgh University renewed their decision to keep female students out of the medical classes.
1871: Joseph Lister's carbolic spray gained wide...
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1871
Joseph Lister
's carbolic spray gained wide acceptance as an antiseptic after it was successfully used during the removal of an abscess from Queen Victoria
's left armpit.
14 April-31 October 1873: An International Exhibition was held in London...
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14 April-31 October 1873
An International Exhibition was held in London on the model of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
27641 (19 March 1873): 5; 27834 (30 October 1873): 6
20 May 1873: Seventeen labouring-class women at Ascott-under-Wychwood...
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20 May 1873
Seventeen labouring-class women at Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire prevented two men from going to work as blacklegs to replace others whom a farmer had sacked for joining the Agricultural Workers Union
.
October 1873: At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society...
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October 1873
At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society of London
, physician Sir William Withey Gull
applied his newly-coined label anorexia nervosa as the term for a female nervous disorder. That same year a French...
May 1876: Russia, Austria and Germany presented the...
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May 1876
Russia, Austria and Germany presented the Berlin Memorandum to the Sultan of Turkey
, demanding that he inaugurate reforms in the extensive Ottoman Empire.
1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...
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1878
The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.
3 August 1881: The Seventh International Medical Congress...
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3 August 1881
The Seventh International Medical Congress was officially opened in London by the Prince of Wales, bringing medical science onto an international public stage, albeit an all-male one.
1883: A French observer, Hector France, noted that...
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1883
A French observer, Hector France
, noted that condoms were packaged with colour pictures of Prime Minister Gladstone
and Queen Victoria
and sold in Petticoat Lane, London.
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