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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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.
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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 Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press.
2: 108; I. 5
Yet...
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...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
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
to the Queen . SSE begins by addressing unmarried women, admonishing them not to regard marriage...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...
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
explaining that the...
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
Two of the essays deal directly with women's economic independence. About Money argues that every woman ought to be a woman of business
Craik, Dinah Mulock. About Money and Other Things. Macmillan.
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because our right or wrong use of money is the utmost...
Textual Features Augusta Gregory
The overtly Nationalist play is set in 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, in Mayo. Cathleen, a mysterious old woman who enters the play as a wandering beggar, represents the country of Ireland...
Textual Features Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was more controversial in her defence of the Improvements in the Scottish Highlands. Much of HBS 's visit to Britain had been facilitated by the Duchess of Sutherland (Mistress of the Robes to...
Textual Features Ann Hawkshaw
The poems in this volume are generally didactic, teaching the importance of religious faith and moral virtues. The Oak Tree finds in the tree's slow growth a common parable for patience and diligence, which may...
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...
Textual Features Lucy Walford
The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria ...
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

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: 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 .

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.

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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