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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Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The column of Our Weekly Gossip argued that selecting a woman would be an honourable testimonial to the individual, a fitting recognition of the remarkable place which the women of England have taken in the... |
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 |
Reception | Robert Browning | The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan
in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among... |
Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
attended a private audience with Princess Victoria
and the Duchess of Kent
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 156 |
Reception | Emily Faithfull | A testimonial dinner was given for EF
in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 84 |
Reception | Florence Nightingale | FN
became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII
; Queen Victoria
had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross. Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice. xxiii Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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 |
Publishing | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
honoured her sovereign (who had succeeded to the throne on 20 June) by publishing The Young Queen in the Athenæum; the following week the same journal carried her Victoria
's Tears. Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan. 28 |
Publishing | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | EWW
was commissioned by the New York magazine the American to go to London and write a poem on the funeral of Queen Victoria
: she wrote The Queen's Last Ride. Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons. Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. The Worlds and I. Gay and Hancock. 195 |
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... |
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. |
Publishing | Ellen Johnston | The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria
, Benjamin Disraeli
, Robert Napier
, and Lord Raglan
, as well as other members of the nobility and the army... |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | DMC
wrote regularly for the new shilling monthly Macmillan's Magazine; she later reviewed for it Queen Victoria
's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. chronology, 99, 134 |
Publishing | Dervla Murphy | Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM
said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys... |
Publishing | Sarah Tytler | Of ST
's other biographies, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen came out in two volumes in 1883 and 1885 (having also been published in parts), and was quickly reprinted at Toronto... |
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