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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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
FN visited the Queen and the Prince on 21 September 1856 at Balmoral, where she pleaded the case for military hospital reform. A few years later, the Queen offered her an apartment in Kensington...
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.
xxiii
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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
Leisure and Society Caroline Norton
The recently married Queen Victoria received CN at Court: a testimony to belief in her innocence, in the face of George Norton 's attempts to blacken her reputation.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
169
Textual Production Caroline Norton
CN published A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth 's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill).
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.
385
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.
33
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
249
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Norton
For a while after the separation CN pursued Melbourne with letters in an attempt to revive their intimacy, which in her isolation she sorely missed. He held her firmly at a distance. She accused him...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Ogilvy
These poems include The Rookery on the Hill, Grannie's Birthday, A Ditty in Praise of Good Wine, Allan Water, August 27th, 1887, Sleep the Sleep that Knows Not Waking,...
Wealth and Poverty Margaret Oliphant
After having met MO in March, Queen Victoria granted her a Civil List pension of £100 per annum.
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
92
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
In the month of MO 's death there appeared Women Novelists of Queen Victoria 's Reign: A Book of Appreciations, which she edited and published with eight other women to mark the queen's jubilee.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
304-5
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.
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, 1997.
Literary responses Margaret Oliphant
It is almost impossible to calculate MO 's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
In other late poems she had celebrated Princess Victoria (in 1836) and urged the United States to accept black people as equal to whites (in 1846).
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
428, 443-4
She now gave the bazaar organizers a...
Literary responses Frances Mary Peard
According to Mary J. Y. Harris, this was perhaps the best-loved of FMP 's novels. Queen Victoria used to give copies to her godchildren. Stanley Weyman praised the Plymouth sections though he thought the Dartmoor...
Textual Production Hester Lynch Piozzi
The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins...

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