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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Leisure and Society | Sarah Macnaughtan | SM
was formally presented at Buckingham Palace in London as part of her coming out, which was a young girl's rite of passage into high society. She was presented to the Princess of Wales
instead... |
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. 21-2 |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | It reprinted work already published in the Daily News, Pall Mall Gazette, Daily Chronicle, and Athenæum. Her Times obituary attributed its rhetorical patriotism to the influence of Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (5 May 1924): 16 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Amanda McKittrick Ros | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pandita Ramabai | Rachel L. Bodley
claims that this was read by (and influenced the opinions of) Queen Victoria
. Ramabai, Pandita. Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter. Kosambi, MeeraEditor & translator , Indiana University Press. 242n12 Bodley, Rachel L., and Pandita Ramabai. “Introduction”. The High-Caste Hindu Woman, Jas B. Rogers, p. i - xxiv. xvi, xviii |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Isabella Duberly | Queen Victoria
, with Prince Albert
and their eldest daughter
, reviewed the Eighth Hussars
at Portsmouth on their return from the Crimean War. She bowed deeply to FID
, though she did not speak to her. Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xlviii. xxxiii-xxxiv |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Frere | Upon their return, she and her sister were received at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Living once again with her parents in London, Lucie Austin began an active social life. She was introduced to Queen Victoria
, met and became friendly with Caroline Norton
, and was introduced to... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | The same year they saw Queen Victoria
's entourage in Paris on a state visit. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 105 |
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