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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ada Cambridge | The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these... |
| 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. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Ogilvy | These poems include The Rookery on the Hill, Grannie's Birthday, A Ditty in Praise of Good Wine, Allan Water, August 27th, 1887, Sleep the Sleep that Knows Not Waking,... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | The poet laureate at this date was Robert Southey, who however was to die early the next year. This work, which features sections of verse as well as prose, focuses on Queen Victoria
's visit... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc
to Queen Victoria
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 302-3 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Naomi Jacob | The Shakespeare
allusion is curious and suggestive. Antonio is replying to Shylock's famous speech claiming humanity for Jews; he justifies his own racial or religious hostility, and suggests that usury can only be pracised on... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the... |
| Travel | Martin Ross | MR
recorded her watching of Queen Victoria
's jubilee procession: she was most struck by the Indian princes, sparkling fit to blind you. The finest of the whole show, Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 44 Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 43-4 |
| Travel | Fanny Kemble | FK
visited her family in London, witnessing the opening of Queen Victoria
's first parliament in late December. She left England, however, before the coronation the following June, pregnant for a second time. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 123, 125-7 |
| Travel | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Like other nineteeth-century travellers (the trend is visible in Mary Brunton
in 1812) she visited social and charitable institutions—[s]chools, hospitals, prisons, and asylums—as well as historic houses, castles, and beauty spots. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 183 |
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