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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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Emily Faithfull | EF
outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions, Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 281-6. 282 |
| Textual Features | Ruth Rendell | Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria
's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a... |
| 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 | Dinah Mulock Craik | Two of the essays deal directly with women's economic independence. About Money argues that every woman ought to be a woman of business Craik, Dinah Mulock. About Money and Other Things. Macmillan, 1886. 7 |
| Textual Features | Marina Warner | The book includes text and images gathered from over fifty albums which Queen Victoria
kept from her girlhood (beginning 13 July 1832) until her death (22 July 1901). They present a multi-faceted picture of the... |
| Textual Features | Lucy Walford | The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria
... |
| Textual Features | Harriet Beecher Stowe | She was more controversial in her defence of the Improvements in the Scottish Highlands. Much of HBS
's visit to Britain had been facilitated by the Duchess of Sutherland
(Mistress of the Robes to... |
| Textual Features | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her authors run from Jane Austen
and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Harriet Martineau
. Elizabeth Fry
, Mary Carpenter
, and Florence Nightingale
represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel
and Mary Somerville
science, and... |
| Textual Features | Augusta Gregory | The overtly Nationalist play is set in 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, in Mayo. Cathleen, a mysterious old woman who enters the play as a wandering beggar, represents the country of Ireland... |
| Textual Features | Naomi Royde-Smith | These are cheerfully celebratory in tone. Paddington Station, Travellers and Fashions: An Unwritten Romance ends by quoting official directives not to allow Queen Victoria
to be alarmed by knowing the speed of the royal... |
| Textual Features | Margaret Forster | This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research... |
| Textual Features | Ann Hawkshaw | The poems in this volume are generally didactic, teaching the importance of religious faith and moral virtues. The Oak Tree finds in the tree's slow growth a common parable for patience and diligence, which may... |
| 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 | 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, 1996. 75-6 |
| 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... |
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