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 Marie Corelli
As Janet Casey reports, Nearly half of her books were international best-sellers, and it was not unusual for a new Corelli novel to sell out on its first day of publication.
Nufftus, William, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 156. Gale Research.
156: 87
In addition,...
Textual Production Lettice Cooper
LC issued further biographies of eminent Victorians designed for young people: The Young Florence Nightingale, 1960, The Young Victoria, 1961, The Young Edgar Allan Poe, 1964, and A Hand Upon the Time...
Textual Features Eliza Cook
The subsidiary poems, in many different (but all simple) stanza forms, deal in love, death, separation, self-sacrifice, and nostalgia. Together, love-songs and laments for times past predominate (old is a plangent word in EC
Leisure and Society Constance, Countess Markievicz
Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) was presented at court to Queen Victoria , marking her coming out in London and Dublin high society.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
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Literary responses Caroline Clive
The volume firmly established CC 's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed...
Literary responses Mary Cholmondeley
Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went...
Friends, Associates Georgiana Chatterton
While spending two summers with her mother at Tunbridge Wells, the young Georgiana Iremonger met with the Duchess of Kent and her daughter (the future Queen Victoria ) almost every day, and spent time...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...
Leisure and Society Lady Colin Campbell
On 5 May 1875 Gertrude Blood, later LCC , was presented in the Queen 's Drawing Room at court: her formal entry into society.
Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd.
11
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ada Cambridge
The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...
Textual Production Maria Callcott
Some of MC 's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library . A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her...
Leisure and Society Augusta Ada Byron
Her marriage and her title brought AAB a whirl of social engagements: balls, concerts (including Bellini 's Norma), and meeting Queen Victoria . The domestic and social duties of managing three houses as a...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Bussy
DB 's father, Sir Richard Strachey , was born on 24 July 1817 at Sutton Court at Stowey in Somerset. He joined the Bombay Engineers at the age of nineteen and pursued an immensely...
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...

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