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
Birth Rosamond Lehmann
She was the second of four children.
Simons, Judy. Rosamond Lehmann. St Martin’s Press.
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Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang.
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RL notes in her autobiographical The Swan in the Evening that her birthday was the same date as Queen Victoria 's funeral, a coincidence which seemed...
Anthologization Martin Ross
MR submitted a poem on Queen Victoria 's jubilee of 1887 to the Irish Times for its book of fifty jubilee poems by Irish writers to mark the occasion. It was accepted.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Anthologization Violet Fane
In 1901 her poetry was included (with that of others, including Flora Annie Steel , specifically mentioned in the subtitle) in The Passing of Victoria ; the Poets' Tribute, edited by John Alexander Hammerton .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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