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.
Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Ellen Johnston
She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria .
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
, 1997, pp. 70-98.
84
She received from the Queen in 1888 an engraved portrait, personally inscribed, in recognition...
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, 1999, pp. 1-34.
15-16
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, 2002.
xxiii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 1952.
111
None of MH 's hymns, however, appears in modern collections.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
140-1
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, 1983.
156
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...
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, 1983.
chronology, 99, 134
Publishing Marina Warner
MW published Queen Victoria 's Sketchbook, an edition of the queen's private journals and watercolour illustrations.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1982
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research, 1998.
194: 284
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, 1997.
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 Agnes Strickland
The volume was published by J. Green , who contributed a musical arrangement for each poem.
Peterman, Michael. “Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland”. Bulletin, July/August 2002, Vol.
34
, No. 4, National Library of Canada.
AS continued her professional relationship with Green , publishing another patriotic song, The Merry Queen of England, sometime after 1832.
Peterman, Michael. “Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland”. Bulletin, July/August 2002, Vol.
34
, No. 4, National Library of Canada.
Publishing Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
In 1838 Dacre addressed a sonnet to the new young queen , to accompany a gift of a copy of her Translations from the Italian. The queen remembered this gift in 1849.
Grey, Barbarina Charlotte, Lady. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray, 1908.
251
Publishing Noel Streatfeild
Its longer title was Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and her Children's Books. NS then wrote an introduction for Nesbit's Long Ago When I Was Young, when it finally reached posthumous appearance...

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