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.
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Marsh | Anne's brother-in-law from 1822 was the distinguished Sir Henry Holland
(physician to |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Faithfull | Charlotte Robinson
was EF
's intimate friend, and likely her lesbian lover, in her later life. Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol. 36 , pp. 70-98. 85 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
had one elder sister and four elder brothers: Ralph (b. 1857), Charlotte (b. 1858), Sydney (b. 1861), Walter (b. 1862), and Harry (b. 1864). As an adult she was close to Charlotte and Sydney... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's father, the Reverend Reginald Windsor
, was Baron Buckhurst and later seventh Earl De La Warr. On succeeding to the title he took the surname of Sackville, rather than Sackville-West. He died on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Steele | AS
's brother Sir (Henry) Evelyn Wood
was an army officer who was responsible for negotiating the Treaty of Pretoria, signed on 5 April 1881, at the end of the Boer War. Popular with Queen Victoria |
Education | Dorothy Brett | Whereas the two Brett boys were sent off to boarding school for a formal education, Dorothy and Sylvia were taught at home, leading a starkly sheltered existence that, Brett believed, arrested their maturation. After the... |
Education | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
's companion-governess, Elizabeth Appleton
, went on to run her own school in Upper Portland Place, to publish half a dozen books of high calibre (from Private Education; or, A Practical Plan for... |
Dedications | Emily Faithfull | The most important publication of the Victoria Press
to the history of women's printing and publishing is undoubtedly The Victoria Regia (1861). This literary gift book, edited by Adelaide Procter
and dedicated by permission to... |
Dedications | Sophie Veitch | She dedicated the book to Queen Victoria
. It was intended for purposes of presentation and display, with gilt-edged leaves, and gilt embossing on the front cover and spine. The forty illustrative plates mainly depict... |
Dedications | Kate Marsden | In her English-language version, KM
seeks to legitimise her project by opening with documentation of her connection to Queen Victoria and other leading public figures. She dedicates it by special permission to the monarch
... |
Dedications | Adelaide Procter | AP
edited The Victoria Regia: A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose, with a preface by Emily Faithfull
, published by Faithfull at the Victoria Press
, set by women compositors, and... |
Dedications | Catherine Sinclair | The book appeared a year after her father's death in late 1835. It was dedicated, with permission, to her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria, who was soon to be Queen
. In the preface... |
Dedications | Frances Isabella Duberly | Francis Marx
toned down a good deal of her criticism of military incompetence in high places, whose deficiencies bore hard on soldiers in the field. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Cultural formation | Anna Steele | Her heritage was English: her mother
's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white... |
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