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
Literary responses Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
The Queen personally requested a copy of the poem about the mining tragedy.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
214
Textual Production Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria 's mourning for Prince Albert .
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son.
ix
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
214
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Tytler
HT 's husband purchased at auction the jewelled cap or crown of the last Mughal Emperor, and two of his thrones. Once back in England, he sold these to the queen for £500. (Though the...
Occupation Harriet Tytler
During the next six months she and her husband took nearly 500 photographs of locations associated with the Indian Mutiny. Two years later the Calotype photographs and paintings were taken to England and displayed...
Publishing Sarah Tytler
Of ST 's other biographies, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen came out in two volumes in 1883 and 1885 (having also been published in parts), and was quickly reprinted at Toronto...
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...
Textual Production Linda Villari
LV 's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company . LV wrote it at Florence and...
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...
Literary responses Lucy Walford
Another response had a more immediate impact on LW : that of the monarch. Through correspondence with the Duchess of Roxburghe,
The duchess may be the seventy-year-old Susanna Stephenia , wife of the 6th Duke...
Textual Features Lucy Walford
The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria ...
Publishing Marina Warner
MW published Queen Victoria 's Sketchbook, an edition of the queen's private journals and watercolour illustrations.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1982
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 284
Textual Features Marina Warner
The book includes text and images gathered from over fifty albums which Queen Victoria kept from her girlhood (beginning 13 July 1832) until her death (22 July 1901). They present a multi-faceted picture of the...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius , with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Textual Features Dorothy Whipple
DW begins the book endearingly with her repeated commands to her self to go back in time, with the unwillingness of her self to leave the present, and the way it finally runs far away...

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