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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Margaret Forster | This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | Her mother, born Elizabeth Harman, has been described as one of the most brilliant women of her generation and as the radical force in her marriage. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Elizabeth Pakenham, Francis Aungier Pakenham |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Frere | Upon their return, she and her sister were received at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 |
| Leisure and Society | Elinor Glyn | About a year later, EG
and her husband
were present to see Queen Victoria
's body in its triple coffin crossing London on 2 February 1901. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton. 97 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Queen Victoria |
| Textual Features | Rumer Godden | She traced the breed from ancient China (though the London cultural attaché of Communist China denied all knowledge of these luxurious parasites) through its arrival in the west in the person of the canine... |
| Publishing | Maud Gonne | The United Irishman carried what became MG
's famous essay The Famine Queen, which arraigns Queen Victoria
as responsible for Ireland's exploitation by England—the historic Great Famine and present-day evictions—and calls for a hostile... |
| politics | Maud Gonne | After coming into her inheritance, MG
put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life... |
| Reception | Catherine Gore | This ran to seven performances on first appearance, and to six editions, the last of them during the 1880s. Revivals included a command performance for the future Queen Victoria
on 15 August 1839. Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, pp. 1-34. 15-16 |
| politics | Elizabeth Grant | Her journal evinces a keen interest not only in matters that concerned her directly (such as the impact of the Irish famine) but also in broader domestic and international politics (such as Chartism and the... |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
| 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 | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Hope | She was said to be twenty-three when she married Nicolson, who was then forty-six. Her new husband always called her Violet. He was an accomplished linguist, proficient in Baluchi, Persian, Pashto, and Brahui, was... |
| Reception | Mary Howitt | In the year this volume was published Queen Victoria
sent one of her ministers, George Henry Byng
, a copy of it. Joanna Baillie
praised it warmly. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 111 Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 140-1 |
Timeline
1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...
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1885
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: 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.
1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1887
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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