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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Kate Marsden
KM , seeking support for her work toward curing leprosy, was presented to Queen Victoria at Marlborough House.
Baigent, Elizabeth. “Kate Marsden: 1859–1931”. Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, edited by Hayden Lorimer and Charles W. J. Withers, Continuum, 2008, pp. 63-92.
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Marsden, Kate. On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers. Record Press.
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Occupation Kate Marsden
At Balmoral in Scotland, KM was again presented to Queen Victoria , who gave her a gold angel-shaped brooch in recognition of her pursuit of a cure for leprosy.
Chapman, Hilary. “The New Zealand Campaign against Kate Marsden, Traveller to Siberia”. New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 2000, pp. 123-40.
129
Middleton, Dorothy. Victorian Lady Travellers. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.
145
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...
Occupation Florence Nightingale
On 28 October the article Who Is Mrs. Nightingale? appeared in The Examiner. It was reprinted two days later in the Times.
Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
167-8, 241n19
The biographical sketch compares FN to the reigning monarch
Occupation Harriet Tytler
During the next six months she and her husband took nearly 500 photographs of locations associated with the Indian Mutiny. Two years later the Calotype photographs and paintings were taken to England and displayed...
Occupation Alfred Tennyson
Having twice refused a title, AT accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria , a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords , becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage.
Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan, 1972.
288
Occupation Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton
His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria 's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards...
Other Life Event Harriet Martineau
She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 125
Later, she attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Other Life Event Florence Nightingale
Queen Victoria wrote to her during the war, and after the peace spoke highly of her achievements abroad. The monarch sent her a personal letter and an engraved, enameled, and jeweled brooch designed by the...
politics Maud Gonne
After coming into her inheritance, MG put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life...
politics Elizabeth Grant
Her journal evinces a keen interest not only in matters that concerned her directly (such as the impact of the Irish famine) but also in broader domestic and international politics (such as Chartism and the...
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...
Author summary Adelaide Procter
AP 's poetry, which appeared almost exclusively in Household Words and All the Year Round, was among the most popular of the Victorian era. An active mid-Victorian feminist, she was a member of the...
Author summary Kate Marsden
A nurse and explorer, KM published a small but widely-circulated body of travel writing that at once documented her search for treatments for leprosy and served as tools for her to raise funds and awareness...
Publishing Dinah Mulock Craik
DMC wrote regularly for the new shilling monthly Macmillan's Magazine; she later reviewed for it Queen Victoria 's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983.
chronology, 99, 134

Timeline

23 June 1897: A state performance was held at Covent Garden's...

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23 June 1897

A state performance was held at Covent Garden's Royal Opera House in honour of Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee. The programme included Tannhäuser, Romeo et Juliette and Les Huguenots.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
96

1899: A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray, The...

Women writers item

1899

A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray , The Forest Chapel, and Other Poems, was dedicated to Queen Victoria .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1 July 1900: Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's...

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1 July 1900

Nationalists held the Patriotic Children's Treat at Clonturk Park, Dublin, in retaliation for children's events held during the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland in April of that year.
Condon, Janette. “The Patriotic Children’s Treat: Irish Nationalism and Children’s Culture at the Twilight of Empire”. Irish Studies Review, Vol.
8
, No. 2, Aug. 2000, pp. 167-78.
168, 173-5

22 January 1901: Edward VII assumed the throne on the death...

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22 January 1901

Edward VII assumed the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria .
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 216
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
47

1902: Lucy Walford published her novel Charlot...

Women writers item

1902

Lucy Walford published her novel Charlotte.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1917: John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird...

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1917

John Murray (publishers of Isabella Bird and later Freya Stark ) took over Smith, Elder (publishers of Charlotte Brontë , Charlotte Chanter , and Queen Victoria ).
Murray, John R. “Going Strong”. The Author, Vol.
cxi
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2000, pp. 182-4.
183

1921: The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted...

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1921

The Institute of Marine Engineers admitted its first female member, Victoria Drummond , a god-daughter of Queen Victoria , who owed her start as an apprentice engineer to the First World War.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 September 1934: The Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden...

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26 September 1934

The Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
223-4
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
378

December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...

Women writers item

December 1965

Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University .
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
212-13

6 May 2009: The antiquarian book collection of the late...

Women writers item

6 May 2009

The antiquarian book collection of the late Paula Fentress Peyraud (the largest in private hands), auctioned in New York, fetched more than $1.5 million US. Books by women between 1760 and 1830 predominated.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Literary Property Changing Hands: The Peyraud Auction (New York City, 6 May 2009)”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 1, 2009, pp. 151-63.
151, 153, 156, 158

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