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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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.
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ER later allowed Victoria the...
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.
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The...
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.
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Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
FAK reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed...
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...
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.
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Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went...
Literary responses Caroline Clive
The volume firmly established CC 's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed...
Literary responses Marie Corelli
As Janet Casey reports, Nearly half of her books were international best-sellers, and it was not unusual for a new Corelli novel to sell out on its first day of publication.
Nufftus, William, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 156. Gale Research.
156: 87
In addition,...
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.
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was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
Literary Setting Jean Plaidy
The later Plaidy novels centre on the lives of Europe's historical figures, from the Norman conquest, through the Renaissance, and to Victoria 's reign. This focus provides an immediate need to publish in a series...
Material Conditions of Writing Jane Porter
JP , after sitting half an hour in the rain in Pall Mall waiting to see Queen Victoria 's wedding procession pass, marked the occasion with a poem.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Occupation Harriet Tytler
During the next six months she and her husband took nearly 500 photographs of locations associated with the Indian Mutiny. Two years later the Calotype photographs and paintings were taken to England and displayed...
Occupation Kate Marsden
KM , seeking support for her work toward curing leprosy, was presented to Queen Victoria at Marlborough House.
Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 1859–1931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, pp. 63-92.
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Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Record Press.
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Occupation Kate Marsden
At Balmoral in Scotland, KM was again presented to Queen Victoria , who gave her a gold angel-shaped brooch in recognition of her pursuit of a cure for leprosy.
Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, pp. 123-40.
129
Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Timeline

1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...

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1885

Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square.

21 August 1885: The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the...

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21 August 1885

The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the age of sexual consent from thirteen to sixteen and criminalized both public and private sexual relations between males. It suppressed brothels and outlawed white slavery.

1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...

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1886

Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.

1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...

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1886

Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.

1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...

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1886

Royal Holloway College for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria .

1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...

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1887

The institution which became Queen Mary College was founded in London as the People's Palace .

9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...

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9 April 1887

Following the appeal judgment which ordered her to cohabit with her husband, Dadaji Bhikaji , a letter by Rukhmabai appeared in the LondonTimes.

Late July 1889: The trial began in Liverpool of American...

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Late July 1889

The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.

February 1890: Queen Victoria appointed twenty-two members,...

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February 1890

Queen Victoria appointed twenty-two members, including royalty and commoners with experience in district nursing associations, to the Council of the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses ; this group later became known as the Queen's...

By 1 November 1890: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,...

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By 1 November 1890

William Booth , founder of the Salvation Army , published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, a call for active Christianity and social reform.

26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...

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26 November 1891

A private command performance of Mascagni 's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria .

10 May 1893: Queen Victoria opened the Imperial Institute...

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10 May 1893

Queen Victoria opened the Imperial Institute of the Colonies and India in South Kensington to encourage and represent the arts, manufacturing, and commerce.

1 January 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal began operatio...

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1 January 1894

The Manchester Ship Canal began operation.

10 February 1897: The Victorian Order of Nurses was founded...

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10 February 1897

The Victorian Order of Nurses was founded to commemorate the Queen 's diamond jubilee.

June 1897: Composer Edward Elgar's first London success...

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June 1897

Composer Edward Elgar 's first London success occurred with his Imperial March, composed for Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee.

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