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
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
She...
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, 1977.
123, 125-7
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,
qtd. in
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
44
however, was the queen herself.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
43-4
Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley (who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness ; the name of Queen Victoria headed the list of subscribers.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 195
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62.
54
It...
Wealth and Poverty Margaret Oliphant
After having met MO in March, Queen Victoria granted her a Civil List pension of £100 per annum.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
92
Wealth and Poverty Harriet Tytler
HT 's husband purchased at auction the jewelled cap or crown of the last Mughal Emperor, and two of his thrones. Once back in England, he sold these to the queen for £500. (Though the...

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