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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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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 |
Residence | G. B. Stern | Until she was fourteen she grew up in Holland Park, London. She remembered watching Queen Victoria
's funeral procession pass. Then, in face of family financial crisis, this house was disposed of, and... |
Textual Features | Harriet Beecher Stowe | She was more controversial in her defence of the Improvements in the Scottish Highlands. Much of HBS
's visit to Britain had been facilitated by the Duchess of Sutherland
(Mistress of the Robes to... |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | Its longer title was Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and her Children's Books. NS
then wrote an introduction for Nesbit's Long Ago When I Was Young, when it finally reached posthumous appearance... |
Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Soon after the new queen's wedding, AS
published Queen Victoria
from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
Publishing | Agnes Strickland | The volume was published by J. Green
, who contributed a musical arrangement for each poem. Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada. Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada. |
Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | ASS
drops the names of at least two social classes in the earlier parts of her autobiography. The Dowager Duchess of Atholl
(a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria
) brought her to the attention... |
Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | In May 1898 and in 1899 AS
addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's
and Bedford College
. On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 223 |
politics | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her sympathies reached far beyond Ireland. In Geneva in 1819 she delighted in her first breath of the free air of a Republic, and she longed (though without much hope for the outcome) to contribute... |
Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt
. In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural... |
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. 288 |
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 | Angela Thirkell | In Coronation SummerAT
produced a carefully-researched historical novel set in London in 1838, the year of Queen Victoria
's coronation. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth. 114, 110-11 |
Residence | Flora Thompson | After Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, FT
made what was for her a radical move: she left north Oxfordshire, where her life so far had been entirely centred, to work at Grayshott in Hampshire. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 48, 50 |
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