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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.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Martin Ross | MR
submitted a poem on Queen Victoria
's jubilee of 1887 to the Irish Times for its book of fifty jubilee poems by Irish writers to mark the occasion. It was accepted. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 44 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
also wrote a two-volume account of her travels in Europe, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, published in 1841. Notably, her experiences included seeing Queen Victoria
at the opera (she describes... |
| Textual Production | Flora Shaw | In 1883, FS
made plans to write a history of England to be titled From Queen to Queen (Elizabeth
to Victoria
) but she never completed it. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable. 43 Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 64-75. 66 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
| Textual Production | Lydia Howard Sigourney | LHS
commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament
in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria
's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life. Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson. 291-4 |
| Travel | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Like other nineteeth-century travellers (the trend is visible in Mary Brunton
in 1812) she visited social and charitable institutions—[s]chools, hospitals, prisons, and asylums—as well as historic houses, castles, and beauty spots. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 183 |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | The poet laureate at this date was Robert Southey, who however was to die early the next year. This work, which features sections of verse as well as prose, focuses on Queen Victoria
's visit... |
| Textual Production | Edith Sitwell | ES
published another historical biography, Victoria
of England; this became a best-seller. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis. 47 |
| Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | These limitations, she wrote, were a severe hindrance to the pursuit of an artistic career: The whole English attitude towards women in fields of art is ludicrous and uncivilised. There is no sex in art... |
| 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS
calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering, Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol. 19 |
| Reception | Mary Somerville | MS
attended a private audience with Princess Victoria
and the Duchess of Kent
. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff. 156 |
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