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 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
Textual Production Harriet Downing
HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field...
Textual Production Mary Catherine Hume
MCH published two letters on the Contagious Diseases Acts and related issues, addressing one to Queen Victoria and one to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 104
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
In the last decade of her life, JP published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered...
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...
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
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
Textual Production Charlotte Eliza Humphry
Truth was still going strong in the years when CEH wrote for it (it survived, indeed, through various transformations until 1957), though Labouchere was denied a ministerial post because the weekly had drawn Queen Victoria
Textual Production Constance Lytton
In the last few months of her life CL worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria 's...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
CN published A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth 's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill).
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing.
385
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing.
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Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby.
249
Textual Production Vera Brittain
VB published an account of the progress of women's struggle and status during the first half of the twentieth century: Lady into Woman: A History of Women from Victoria to Elizabeth II.
British Book News. British Council.
(1954): 23
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
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG wrote a memorial to the Queen from the women of Nottingham about the Corn Laws controversy.
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 177
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...

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