Prince Albert

Standard Name: Albert, Prince
Used Form: Prince Consort

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
The queen was grief-stricken at his death. Her devastation resembled that which she had experienced after the death of Prince Albert . In a letter to her secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby , she compared the...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg , Princess Alexandrina Victoria 's cousin, visited England for the first time.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiii
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
52-3
Dedications Queen Victoria
The book was dedicated as follows: To the dear memory of him who made the life of the writer bright and happy, these simple records are lovingly and gratefully inscribed.
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Harper and Brothers.
ii
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg made a second visit to England to see his cousin QV .
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
132
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiii
Literary Setting Queen Victoria
Unlike the flowery language of her editor, QV 's diction is simple and the prose style concise. Although the journal entries make implicit references to class, the omission of overt discussions of governmental affairs and...
Family and Intimate relationships Queen Victoria
QV proposed marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg after spending a short time with him.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
133-4
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
xiv
Textual Features Queen Victoria
It covers the state visit of Louis-Napoleon and Eugénie , and QV 's return visit to Paris with Albert .
Victoria, Queen, and Raymond Mortimer. Leaves from a Journal. Privately printed.
Textual Production Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria 's mourning for Prince Albert .
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son.
ix
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
214
Friends, Associates Alfred Tennyson
A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald , Coventry Patmore , Edward Lear , William Ewart Gladstone
Textual Production Harriet Smythies
HS expressed her patriotism in The Prince and the People. A Poem under the name Mrs. Yorick Smythies.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1393 (1854): 845
Material Conditions of Writing Harriet Smythies
She wrote this poem, she said in her preface, during the violent and unjust, but luckily short-lived, popular outcry against the Prince Consort . An illness prevented her from getting it into print until the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Rigby
ER 's husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , accepted the post of Director of the National Gallery, at the urging of the Prime Minister and Prince Albert .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
103
Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press.
2: 32-3
Other Life Event Elizabeth Rigby
Some time in 1844 ER had her picture taken by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson . The resulting Talbotype, entitled Elizabeth Rigby, was the first example of photography viewed by Prince Albert .
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
137
Publishing Elizabeth Rigby
ER anonymously published The Late Prince Consort in the January 1862 Quarterly Review, only a month after Prince Albert 's death.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
1: 744

Timeline

26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...

Building item

26 November 1891

A private command performance of Mascagni 's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria .

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