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.
Black and white photograph of Queen Victoria, done for her Diamond Jubilee, 1897, by W. and D. Downey. She is seated, face in profile, holding a fan and wearing an elaborately embroidered floor-length dress, a small crown, a veil on the back of her head whose lace matches that of her skirt, a jewelled bracelet and drop earrings. National Archives of Canada.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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. 1854.
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but she nevertheless...
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, 1983.
156
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, 1940.
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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”. Bulletin, July/August 2002, Vol.
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, No. 4, National Library of Canada.
AS continued her professional relationship with Green , publishing another patriotic song, The Merry Queen of England, sometime after 1832.
Peterman, Michael. “Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland”. Bulletin, July/August 2002, Vol.
34
, 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, 1903.
223
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, 1972.
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

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