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
Occupation Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria 's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards...
Leisure and Society Sara Jeannette Duncan
Canadian SJD was presented to Queen Victoria , a moment in her career which she considered triumphal.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi.
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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 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.
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Publishing Frances Isabella Duberly
During her time in CrimeaFID kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina (now British Library Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to...
Dedications Frances Isabella Duberly
Francis Marx toned down a good deal of her criticism of military incompetence in high places, whose deficiencies bore hard on soldiers in the field.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
(By now an official enquiry had been mounted into Lord Raglan
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.
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...
Textual Production Victoria Cross
VC 's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)...
Textual Production Margaret Croker
MC published, with her name, A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent (father of Queen Victoria ).
Croker, Margaret. A Monody on His Late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. Francis Westley.
title-page
Textual Production Dinah Mulock Craik
Dinah Mulock published Elizabeth and Victoria : From a Woman's Point of View in the feminist Victoria Magazine.
Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett.
68
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
134
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC wrote regularly for the new shilling monthly Macmillan's Magazine; she later reviewed for it Queen Victoria 's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
chronology, 99, 134
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
Two of the essays deal directly with women's economic independence. About Money argues that every woman ought to be a woman of business
Craik, Dinah Mulock. About Money and Other Things. Macmillan.
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because our right or wrong use of money is the utmost...
Family and Intimate relationships Blanche Warre Cornish
In a grand-daughter's satirical words the Ritchies and Thackerays were one of those now old-fashioned families with uncles and cousins meting out justice in India, who spent their lives in carefully weighing in the scales...
Textual Production Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC kept a diary, from which her daughter quotes a passage about Queen Victoria 's death and the pathos of the end of the Victorian age.
MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable.
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