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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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Cecil Frances Alexander
Her mother, Elizabeth Frances (Reed) Humphreys , was the sister of General Sir Thomas Reed , an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria .
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput.
99, 197-8
Her mother's religious views had a strong influence on CFA ...
Family and Intimate relationships Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT 's father, painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema , received from Queen Victorialetters of denization making him a British subject.
Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
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.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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Leisure and Society Charlotte Barnard
CB was presented to Queen Victoria on 29 May 1856.
Smith, Phyllis. The Story of Claribel. J. W. Ruddock & Sons Ltd., Lincoln.
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Family and Intimate relationships Emilie Barrington
EB 's five sisters were Eliza , Julia , Matilda , Zoe , and Sophie . The two eldest were presented at Queen Victoria 's drawing-room on 3 April 1851.
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press.
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Textual Production Emilie Barrington
Its full title was A St. Luke of the Nineteenth Century, contrasts an old-fashioned story about a few gentlemen and gentlewomen, and some others, who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Chaste...
Leisure and Society Mary Boyle
MB had a lifelong interest in the theatre; she attended performances frequently and she, her family, and friends were frequently involved in acting and producing plays privately. On one occasion in 1837 she found herself...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB wrote for children from time to time. For the 1887 Jubilee, she wrote as Aunt Belinda a children's parable of Queen Victoria 's reign in an account of the reign of Queen Hermione of...
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...
Publishing Dorothy Brett
The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...
Occupation Ann Bridge
Of being a diplomatic wife AB wrote, the job is a job, like any other, and has to be well done as regards dressing, entertaining, and those things that require domestic staff and some degree...
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB published an account of the progress of women's struggle and status during the first half of the twentieth century: Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
British Book News. British Council.
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Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press.
2: 108; I. 5
Yet...
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...

Timeline

1766 or 1767: Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide...

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1766 or 1767

Joseph Priestley first isolated nitrous oxide or nitrous air.

1799: The Evangelical movement founded the Religious...

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1799

The Evangelical movement founded the Religious Tract Society , with the object of publishing texts for the salvation of sinners.

1806: James S. Carter, a Tourist Outfitter, opened...

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1806

James S. Carter , a Tourist Outfitter, opened a shop at 369 Oxford Street, London; among his wares was an Alpine boot for walking outdoors, made for men and women.

31 March 1814: The victorious allied armies entered Paris...

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31 March 1814

The victorious allied armies entered Paris to reclaim France for monarchical government.

: Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in...

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Winter1814-15

Evangelical William Wilberforce stayed in Brighton during the winter season in order to have access to the Prince Regent and attempt a conversion within the monarchy.

1819: Surgeon William Lawrence's publication of...

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1819

Surgeon William Lawrence 's publication of his lectures on the Natural History of Man caused a scandal because conservatives believed it reduced humans to the level of animals.

16 June 1824: The first meeting of the Society for the...

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16 June 1824

The first meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or RSPCA) took place in London.

3 August 1832: In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry...

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3 August 1832

In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry Hunt presented Parliament with a petition for female enfranchisement on behalf of Miss Mary Smith of Stanmore, Yorkshire.

June 1833: The popularity of the charity bazaar as an...

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June 1833

The popularity of the charity bazaar as an institution was assured when the future Queen operated a stall at the Grand Fancy Fair and Bazaar of the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress .

1836: A giant water lily, native to the Amazon...

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1836

A giant water lily, native to the Amazon and South America, was discovered in British Guiana ; the next year it was named Victoria Regia (later Victoria Amazonica) in honour of Queen Victoria .

1837: Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia...

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1837

Black musician Frank Johnson and his Philadelphia band were the first American band to tour Britain.

1838: Sir Titus Salt invented alpaca, a fabric...

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1838

Sir Titus Salt invented alpaca, a fabric similar to silk, but much cheaper.

1838: Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical...

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1838

Miss Gordon in A Guide to the Genealogical Chart of English and Scottish History, published this year, set out to prove Queen Victoria 's Scottish ancestry.

29 June 1838: The Sun newspaper was printed in gold to...

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29 June 1838

The Sun newspaper was printed in gold to celebrate Queen Victoria 's coronation.

5 July 1839: Lady Flora Hastings, a lady-in-waiting to...

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5 July 1839

Lady Flora Hastings , a lady-in-waiting to the mother of the young and inexperienced Queen Victoria , died, probably of liver cancer, at Buckingham Palace after being publicly suspected of illicit pregnancy.

Texts

Victoria, Queen, and Patricia Edwina Victoria Knatchbull, second Countess Mountbatten. Advice to a Grand-Daughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse. Editor Hough, Richard, Heinemann, 1975.
Victoria, Queen. Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901. Editor Ramm, Agatha, Alan Sutton, 1990.
Victoria, Queen. Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess 1878-1885. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans, 1981.
Victoria, Queen. Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1871-1878. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans, 1981.
Victoria, Queen, and Alfred Tennyson. Dear and Honoured Lady: The Correspondence Between Queen Victoria and Alfred Tennyson. Editors Dyson, Hope and Charles Tennyson, Macmillan, 1969.
Victoria, Queen. Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans Brothers, 1964.
Victoria, Queen. Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864. Editor Fulford, Roger, Evans Brothers, 1968.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, edited by Arthur Helps, Harper and Brothers, 1868.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1964, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1968, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1865-1871, edited by Roger Fulford, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess 1878-1885, edited by Roger Fulford, Evans Brothers, 1981, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Queen Victoria in her Letters and Journals, edited by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin, 1985, p. various pages.
Victoria, Queen. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901, edited by Agatha Ramm, Alan Sutton, 1990.
Victoria, Queen, and Raymond Mortimer. Leaves from a Journal. Privately printed, 1888.
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Harper and Brothers, 1868.
Victoria, Queen. Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Victoria, Queen. More Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. Editor Helps, Arthur, Smith, Elder, 1884.
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985.
Warner, Marina, and Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria’s Sketchbook. Macmillan, 1979.
Victoria, Queen. The Girlhood of Queen Victoria. Editor Esher, Lord, Murray, 1912.
Victoria, Queen. Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1865-1871. Editor Fulford, Roger, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971.