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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Ellen Johnston | She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria
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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... |
| Residence | G. B. Stern | Until she was fourteen she grew up in Holland Park, London. She remembered watching Queen Victoria
's funeral procession pass. Then, in face of family financial crisis, this house was disposed of, and... |
| Residence | Fanny Kingsley | |
| Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt
. In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural... |
| Residence | Flora Thompson | After Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, FT
made what was for her a radical move: she left north Oxfordshire, where her life so far had been entirely centred, to work at Grayshott in Hampshire. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 48, 50 |
| Residence | Harriett Mozley | |
| 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. 7 |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
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