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
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...
Friends, Associates Mary Berry
Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...
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, 1984.
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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, 1965.
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Family and Intimate relationships Laurence Alma-Tadema
LAT 's father, painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema , received from Queen Victorialetters of denization making him a British subject.
Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton, 1990.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Family and Intimate relationships Cecil Frances Alexander
Her mother, Elizabeth Frances (Reed) Humphreys , was the sister of General Sir Thomas Reed , an aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria .
Wallace, Valerie. Mrs. Alexander: A Life of the Hymn-Writer, Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895. Lilliput, 1995.
99, 197-8
Her mother's religious views had a strong influence on CFA ...
Literary responses Sarah Flower Adams
It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria , King Edward VII , and United States president William McKinley . Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman 's Lead Kindly Light, it...
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, 1999.
199: 302-3
politics Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Her sympathies reached far beyond Ireland. In Geneva in 1819 she delighted in her first breath of the free air of a Republic, and she longed (though without much hope for the outcome) to contribute...
Residence Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt . In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural...

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