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 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published A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth 's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill).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.
33
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 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...
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 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 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 Production Edith Sitwell
ES published another historical biography, Victoria of England; this became a best-seller.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
47
Textual Production Jan Morris
JM published Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, an account of the British Empire at its apogee, the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, a volume designed as one of a trilogy...
Textual Production Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
An accident at Hartley Colliery in Northumberland provoked HET to write a poem about it; this year she also wrote of Queen Victoria 's mourning for Prince Albert .
Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son.
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Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
214
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
In the month of MO 's death there appeared Women Novelists of Queen Victoria 's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, which she edited and published with eight other women to mark the queen's jubilee.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
304-5
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.
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE justifies her examination of women's domestic life by comparing it to that enjoyed by Queen Victoria . She attempts to cut across class lines: it is the privilege of the humblest, as well as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering,
Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol.
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but she nevertheless...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Emily Shore
The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

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