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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill).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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET
to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria
's mourning for Prince Albert
. Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son. ix Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 214 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Oliphant | In the month of MO
's death there appeared Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, which she edited and published with eight other women to mark the queen's jubilee. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 304-5 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | JM
published Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, an account of the expansion of the |
| Textual Production | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
kept a diary, from which her daughter quotes a passage about Queen Victoria
's death and the pathos of the end of the Victorian age. MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable. 111 |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | In other late poems she had celebrated Princess Victoria
(in 1836) and urged the United States to accept black people as equal to whites (in 1846). Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 428, 443-4 |
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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