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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | On 4 October 1864 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
married Edith Villiers
, who had a yearly income of £6,000. Together they had three daughters and four sons. After her husband's death, Edith fell into financial... |
| Occupation | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria
's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 10 |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Stickney Ellis | This volume, published as by the author of The Women of England, is dedicated, by permission, Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Wives of England. Fisher. prelims |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Emily Faithfull | EF
outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions, Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, pp. 281-6. 282 |
| Dedications | Emily Faithfull | The most important publication of the Victoria Press
to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter
and dedicated by permission to... |
| Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
| Anthologization | Violet Fane | In 1901 her poetry was included (with that of others, including Flora Annie Steel
, specifically mentioned in the subtitle) in The Passing of Victoria
; the Poets' Tribute, edited by John Alexander Hammerton
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
published a Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. 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. |
| Literary responses | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The book received positive reviews. It was very popular with it readers, including Her Majesty
, who reputedly enjoyed it in spite of its feminist content. Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray. 180 |
| Textual Features | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her authors run from Jane Austen
and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Harriet Martineau
. Elizabeth Fry
, Mary Carpenter
, and Florence Nightingale
represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel
and Mary Somerville
science, and... |
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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