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.
Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Margaret Sackville
LMS 's father, the Reverend Reginald Windsor , was Baron Buckhurst and later seventh Earl De La Warr. On succeeding to the title he took the surname of Sackville, rather than Sackville-West. He died on...
Textual Features Naomi Royde-Smith
These are cheerfully celebratory in tone. Paddington Station, Travellers and Fashions: An Unwritten Romance ends by quoting official directives not to allow Queen Victoria to be alarmed by knowing the speed of the royal...
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
however, was the queen herself.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
43-4
Anthologization Martin Ross
MR submitted a poem on Queen Victoria 's jubilee of 1887 to the Irish Times for its book of fifty jubilee poems by Irish writers to mark the occasion. It was accepted.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
44
Family and Intimate relationships Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
She gave birth to her second child, Edward Robert Bulwer , on 8 November 1831.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable.
161
He became a diplomat and, as Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, a stage-manager of imperial pomp when...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Amanda McKittrick Ros
Lewis 's cautious review drew an ill-tempered and lengthy response generated by AMKR 's belief that he had also insulted Queen Victoria (and to a lesser degree Disraeli ). She writes in the vitriolic fashion...
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
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
The same year they saw Queen Victoria 's entourage in Paris on a state visit.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
105
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
Queen Victoria soon afterwards relayed her deepest sympathy.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
112
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 203-4
ER , however, remained grief-stricken. It is of no use your hoping to find me in good spirits—I shall never be that again, she...
Literary responses Elizabeth Rigby
The tribute was much appreciated by the Queen .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
111
John Murray passed on to ER letters in praise of her memorial publication.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 165
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
ER later allowed Victoria the...
Textual Features Ruth Rendell
Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria 's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a...
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.
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Bodley, Rachel L., and Pandita Ramabai. “Introduction”. The High-Caste Hindu Woman, Jas B. Rogers, p. i - xxiv.
xvi, xviii
Dedications Adelaide Procter
AP edited The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose, with a preface by Emily Faithfull , published by Faithfull at the Victoria Press , set by women compositors, 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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