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.
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Hope | She was said to be twenty-three when she married Nicolson, who was then forty-six. Her new husband always called her Violet. He was an accomplished linguist, proficient in Baluchi, Persian, Pashto, and Brahui, was... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | ASS
drops the names of at least two social classes in the earlier parts of her autobiography. The Dowager Duchess of Atholl
(a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria
) brought her to the attention... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | |
Friends, Associates | Frances Isabella Duberly | Queen Victoria
, with Prince Albert
and their eldest daughter
, reviewed the Eighth Hussars
at Portsmouth on their return from the Crimean War. She bowed deeply to FID
, though she did not speak to her. Duberly, Frances Isabella. “Editor’s Introduction”. Mrs Duberly’s War. Journals and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, edited by Christine Kelly, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xlviii. xxxiii-xxxiv |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | While spending two summers with her mother at Tunbridge Wells, the young Georgiana Iremonger
met with the Duchess of Kent
and her daughter (the future Queen Victoria
) almost every day, and spent time... |
Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Friends, Associates | Mary Frere | Upon their return, she and her sister were received at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Living once again with her parents in London, Lucie Austin began an active social life. She was introduced to Queen Victoria
, met and became friendly with Caroline Norton
, and was introduced to... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | The same year they saw Queen Victoria
's entourage in Paris on a state visit. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 105 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | Queen Victoria
soon afterwards relayed her deepest sympathy. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 112 Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 203-4 |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Pandita Ramabai | Rachel L. Bodley
claims that this was read by (and influenced the opinions of) Queen Victoria
. Ramabai, Pandita. Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter. Kosambi, MeeraEditor & translator , Indiana University Press. 242n12 Bodley, Rachel L., and Pandita Ramabai. “Introduction”. The High-Caste Hindu Woman, Jas B. Rogers, p. i - xxiv. xvi, xviii |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | It reprinted work already published in the Daily News, Pall Mall Gazette, Daily Chronicle, and Athenæum. Her Times obituary attributed its rhetorical patriotism to the influence of Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (5 May 1924): 16 |
Timeline
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
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October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
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January 1853
Following Napoleon III
's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...
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1854
Queen Victoria
sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton
.
10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...
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10 June 1854
Queen Victoria
reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
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1855
When Napoleon III
and his wife, the Empress Eugénie
, visited Queen Victoria
, Eugénie brought the first crinoline to England with her.
29 January 1856: Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross...
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29 January 1856
Queen Victoria
instituted the Victoria Cross for acts of conspicuous valour.
May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
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May 1856
Ellen Terry
made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre
, watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
.
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...
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1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
1858: Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to become the...
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1858
Queen Victoria
chose Ottawa to become the capital of Canada.
9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...
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9 April 1858
Queen Victoria
signed the royal charter giving London University
(then comprised of two schools, University College
and King's College
) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
5 August 1858: The first effective transatlantic telegraph...
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5 August 1858
The first effective transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. During the celebrations, Queen Victoria
and President James Buchanan
exchanged messages over the cable.
4 May 1874: Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler, exhibited...
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4 May 1874
Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler
, exhibited her painting Roll Call at the Royal Academy
; it was bought by Queen Victoria
.
October 1860: Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn; or, The...
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October 1860
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