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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Hester Lynch Piozzi | The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP
never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins... |
| 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 | 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 | 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) Plaidy, Jean. Epitaph for Three Women. Putnam. prelims OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Maria Callcott | Some of MC
's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch
in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library
. A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her... |
| 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 | Emilie Barrington | Its full title was A St. Luke of the Nineteenth Century, contrasts an old-fashioned story about a few gentlemen and gentlewomen, and some others, who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Chaste... |
| 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 | 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. 74 |
| Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
published a Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 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. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
wrote for children from time to time. For the 1887 Jubilee, she wrote as Aunt Belinda a children's parable of Queen Victoria
's reign in an account of the reign of Queen Hermione of... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | In the issue reprinted in New Zealand, Madge discusses Queen Victoria
's Golden Jubilee and describes in detail the luncheon-table set for the queen. She also suggests that old kid gloves can be repurposed into... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kathleen E. Innes | The book contains additional chapters on local charities, the festivities on Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, the Great Fire, social clubs founded since 1900, and the erection of the Village Centre built by voluntary labour. |
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