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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Reception Robert Browning
The praise in 1869 was resounding. Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum hailed it as beyond all parallel the supremest poetical achievement of our time, and the London Quarterly was convinced that Pompilia would rank among...
Reception Ellen Johnston
She also received £5 directly from Queen Victoria .
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
, 1997, pp. 70-98.
84
She received from the Queen in 1888 an engraved portrait, personally inscribed, in recognition...
Reception Catherine Gore
This ran to seven performances on first appearance, and to six editions, the last of them during the 1880s. Revivals included a command performance for the future Queen Victoria on 15 August 1839.
Gore, Catherine. “Introduction”. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore, edited by John Franceschina, Garland, 1999, pp. 1-34.
15-16
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, 2002.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 1952.
111
None of MH 's hymns, however, appears in modern collections.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
140-1
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, 1983.
156
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, 1996.
48, 50
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 Harriett Mozley
From the time of her marriage until early 1847, HM lived at Cholderton in Wiltshire, where her husband was rector. This village, lying under Beacon Hill on Salisbury Plain, felt distant from the...
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
In June 1878, Queen Victoria offered FK rooms at Hampton Court Palace, which she declined. FK lived in a sixteenth-century manor house at Tachbrook Mallory in Warwickshire for the rest of her life. The...
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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The latter depicts the new monarch weeping on the assumption of the throne, moving as she is away from the protections of her mother's breast, and so from childhood.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Editors Clarke, Helen A. and Charlotte Porter, AMS Press, 1973, 6 vols.
2: 108; I. 5
Yet...
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...

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