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.

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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...
Publishing Charlotte Mew
CM 's first published poems, two anonymous V. R. I. sonnets, appeared in Temple Bar following Queen Victoria 's death.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, pp. 43-7.
45
Publishing Frances Isabella Duberly
During her time in CrimeaFID kept a diary (whose manuscript does not survive) and sent regular letters home to her sister Selina (now British Library Additional Manuscripts 47218). She told Selina that writing to...
Publishing Ella Wheeler Wilcox
EWW was commissioned by the New York magazine the American to go to London and write a poem on the funeral of Queen Victoria : she wrote The Queen's Last Ride.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. The Worlds and I. Gay and Hancock.
195
Publishing Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB honoured her sovereign (who had succeeded to the throne on 20 June) by publishing The Young Queen in the Athenæum; the following week the same journal carried her Victoria 's Tears.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan.
28
Publishing Maud Gonne
The United Irishman carried what became MG 's famous essay The Famine Queen, which arraigns Queen Victoria as responsible for Ireland's exploitation by England—the historic Great Famine and present-day evictions—and calls for a hostile...
Publishing Margaret Oliphant
MO 's final article for Blackwood's appeared: 'Tis Sixty Years Since, to mark the Jubilee of Queen Victoria .
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.
Publishing Ellen Johnston
The forty-eight patrons and subscribers thanked in the second edition included Queen Victoria , Benjamin Disraeli , Robert Napier , and Lord Raglan , as well as other members of the nobility and the army...
Publishing Sarah Tytler
Of ST 's other biographies, The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen came out in two volumes in 1883 and 1885 (having also been published in parts), and was quickly reprinted at Toronto...
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.
chronology, 99, 134
Publishing Dervla Murphy
Thinking of her father's years of hoping and struggling to publish his novels, DM said she felt her life had been chosen as the medium through which all the strivings of generations of scribbling Murphys...
Reception Emily Faithfull
A testimonial dinner was given for EF in 1871, where she was presented with a silver tea and coffee service.
Vicinus, Martha. “Lesbian Perversity and Victorian Marriage: The 1864 Codrington Divorce Trial”. Journal of British Studies, Vol.
36
, pp. 70-98.
84
She received from the Queen in 1888 an engraved portrait, personally inscribed, in recognition...
Reception Mary Somerville
MS attended a private audience with Princess Victoria and the Duchess of Kent .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
156
Reception Florence Nightingale
FN became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII ; Queen Victoria had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross.
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
xxiii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Reception Mary Howitt
In the year this volume was published Queen Victoria sent one of her ministers, George Henry Byng , a copy of it. Joanna Baillie praised it warmly.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
111
None of MH 's hymns, however, appears in modern collections.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
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