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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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 |
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 Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London. 140-1 |
Residence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt
. In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural... |
Residence | Flora Thompson | After Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee, FT
made what was for her a radical move: she left north Oxfordshire, where her life so far had been entirely centred, to work at Grayshott in Hampshire. Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale. 48, 50 |
Residence | Harriett Mozley | |
Residence | G. B. Stern | Until she was fourteen she grew up in Holland Park, London. She remembered watching Queen Victoria
's funeral procession pass. Then, in face of family financial crisis, this house was disposed of, and... |
Residence | Fanny Kingsley | |
Textual Features | Dorothy Whipple | DW
begins the book endearingly with her repeated commands to her self to go back in time, with the unwillingness of her self to leave the present, and the way it finally runs far away... |
Textual Features | Eliza Cook | The subsidiary poems, in many different (but all simple) stanza forms, deal in love, death, separation, self-sacrifice, and nostalgia. Together, love-songs and laments for times past predominate (old is a plangent word in EC |
Textual Features | Rumer Godden | She traced the breed from ancient China (though the London cultural attaché of Communist China denied all knowledge of these luxurious parasites) through its arrival in the west in the person of the canine... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | The unfortunate Lady Flora was headline news. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria
's mother, she had been suspected of illicit pregnancy. It turned out (after medical examination and humiliating publicity) that she had a disease... |
Textual Features | Ethel Smyth | These limitations, she wrote, were a severe hindrance to the pursuit of an artistic career: The whole English attitude towards women in fields of art is ludicrous and uncivilised. There is no sex in art... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron
's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie
had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 75-6 |
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