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
Occupation Alfred Tennyson
Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan.
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Occupation Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria 's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards...
Occupation Harriet Tytler
During the next six months she and her husband took nearly 500 photographs of locations associated with the Indian Mutiny. Two years later the Calotype photographs and paintings were taken to England and displayed...
Occupation Kate Marsden
KM , seeking support for her work toward curing leprosy, was presented to Queen Victoria at Marlborough House.
Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 1859–1931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, pp. 63-92.
66
Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Record Press.
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Occupation Kate Marsden
At Balmoral in Scotland, KM was again presented to Queen Victoria , who gave her a gold angel-shaped brooch in recognition of her pursuit of a cure for leprosy.
Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, pp. 123-40.
129
Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
145
Occupation Florence Nightingale
On 28 October the article Who Is Mrs. Nightingale? appeared in The Examiner. It was reprinted two days later in the Times.
Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press.
167-8, 241n19
The biographical sketch compares FN to the reigning monarch
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
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...
Literary responses Millicent Garrett Fawcett
The book received positive reviews. It was very popular with it readers, including Her Majesty , who reputedly enjoyed it in spite of its feminist content.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
180
Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went...
Literary responses Caroline Clive
The volume firmly established CC 's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed...
Literary responses Marie Corelli
As Janet Casey reports, Nearly half of her books were international best-sellers, and it was not unusual for a new Corelli novel to sell out on its first day of publication.
Nufftus, William, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 156. Gale Research.
156: 87
In addition,...
Literary responses George Eliot
Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters,
Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
3: 10
was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...
Literary responses Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
The Queen personally requested a copy of the poem about the mining tragedy.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria , King Edward VII , and United States president William McKinley . Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman 's Lead Kindly Light, it...

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