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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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
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press.
2: 108; I. 5
Yet...
Reception Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The column of Our Weekly Gossip argued that selecting a woman would be an honourable testimonial to the individual, a fitting recognition of the remarkable place which the women of England have taken in the...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...
Reception Robert Browning
The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among...
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
Occupation Ann Bridge
Of being a diplomatic wife AB wrote, the job is a job, like any other, and has to be well done as regards dressing, entertaining, and those things that require domestic staff and some degree...
Education Dorothy Brett
Whereas the two Brett boys were sent off to boarding school for a formal education, Dorothy and Sylvia were taught at home, leading a starkly sheltered existence that, Brett believed, arrested their maturation. After the...
Publishing Dorothy Brett
The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...
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...
Leisure and Society Mary Boyle
MB had a lifelong interest in the theatre; she attended performances frequently and she, her family, and friends were frequently involved in acting and producing plays privately. On one occasion in 1837 she found herself...
Family and Intimate relationships Emilie Barrington
EB 's five sisters were Eliza , Julia , Matilda , Zoe , and Sophie . The two eldest were presented at Queen Victoria 's drawing-room on 3 April 1851.
Westwater, Martha. The Wilson Sisters. Ohio University Press.
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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...
Leisure and Society Charlotte Barnard
CB was presented to Queen Victoria on 29 May 1856.
Smith, Phyllis. The Story of Claribel. J. W. Ruddock & Sons Ltd., Lincoln.
57
Publishing Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
In 1838 Dacre addressed a sonnet to the new young queen , to accompany a gift of a copy of her Translations from the Italian. The queen remembered this gift in 1849.
Barbarina Charlotte, Lady Grey,. A Family Chronicle. Editor Lyster, Gertrude, John Murray.
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