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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Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Soon after the new queen's wedding, AS published Queen Victoria from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus, 1940.
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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 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, 1947.
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Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol.
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, No. 1, May 1959, pp. 64-75.
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Textual Production Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF published a Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
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 Adelaide Procter
Her mother encouraged her love of poetry, before AP could write, by making for her daughter a little album into which she copied her favourite passages. Dickens commented: It looks as if she had carried...
Textual Production Catharine Maria Sedgwick
CMS also wrote a two-volume account of her travels in Europe, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, published in 1841. Notably, her experiences included seeing Queen Victoria at the opera (she describes...
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
CM , as the Author of English Hearts and English Hands, Brief Memories of the First Earl Cairns, etc., etc. and together with her niece L. E. O'Rorke , commemorated Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee...
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...
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 Jean Plaidy
JP 's The Captive of Kensington Palace, a historical novel published under this name and dealing with Princess Victoria 's childhood and adolescence, initiated the Queen Victoria series.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
Plaidy, Jean. Epitaph for Three Women. Putnam, 1983.
prelims
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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 Jean Plaidy
The first-named is George I 's rejected queen (accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel...
Textual Production L. E. L.
LEL 's long poem entitled A Birthday Gift to Princess Victoria was published, officially as A Birthday Tribute, Addressed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, on attaining her Eighteenth Year.
L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, 1997, p. various pages.
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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 Jean Plaidy
The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...

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