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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.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Adelaide Procter | AP
's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the... |
| Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | |
| 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. 80 |
| Education | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
's companion-governess, Elizabeth Appleton
, went on to run her own school in Upper Portland Place, to publish half a dozen books of high calibre (from Private Education; or, A Practical Plan for... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | In the last decade of her life, JP
published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's The Captive of Kensington Palace, a historical novel published under this name and dealing with Princess Victoria
's childhood and adolescence, initiated the Queen Victoria series. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Plaidy, Jean. Epitaph for Three Women. Putnam. prelims OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
| Textual Production | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP
never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins... |
| Literary responses | Frances Mary Peard | According to Mary J. Y. Harris, this was perhaps the best-loved of FMP
's novels. Queen Victoria
used to give copies to her godchildren. Stanley Weyman
praised the Plymouth sections though he thought the Dartmoor... |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | In other late poems she had celebrated Princess Victoria
(in 1836) and urged the United States to accept black people as equal to whites (in 1846). Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press. 428, 443-4 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Margaret Oliphant | After having met MO
in March, Queen Victoria
granted her a Civil List
pension of £100 per annum. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 92 |
| 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. |
| Publishing | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's final article for Blackwood's appeared: 'Tis Sixty Years Since, to mark the Jubilee of Queen Victoria
. Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland. |
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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