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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | JP
's The Captive of Kensington Palace, a historical novel published under this name and dealing with Princess Victoria
's childhood and adolescence, initiated the Queen Victoria series. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Plaidy, Jean. Epitaph for Three Women. Putnam. prelims OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Maria Callcott | Some of MC
's manuscripts (owned by Rosamund Brunel Gotch
in 1937) are now in the Bodleian Library
. A collection of her sketches (including many of the drawings which accompanied her journal of her... |
| Textual Production | Victoria Cross | VC
's pseudonym was apparently a complicated private joke, implying both that Cross believed she deserved recognition for her valour in defying conventional mores (the Victoria Cross being the highest British military award for heroism)... |
| Textual Production | Emilie Barrington | Its full title was A St. Luke of the Nineteenth Century, contrasts an old-fashioned story about a few gentlemen and gentlewomen, and some others, who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria. The Chaste... |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | Soon after the new queen's wedding, AS
published Queen Victoria
from Her Birth to Her Bridal, an early example of the royal-watching industry. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
| Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
published a Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. 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. |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first-named is George I
's rejected queen
(accused of adultery and imprisoned for life before her husband came to the English throne, while her alleged lover
was assassinated). The protagonist of the second novel... |
| Textual Production | L. E. L. | LEL
's long poem entitled A Birthday Gift to Princess Victoria was published, officially as A Birthday Tribute, Addressed to Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, on attaining her Eighteenth Year. L. E. L.,. “Critical Materials”. Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Selected Writings, edited by Jerome McGann and Daniel Riess, Broadview, p. various pages. 33 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. |
| Textual Production | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
also wrote a two-volume account of her travels in Europe, Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, published in 1841. Notably, her experiences included seeing Queen Victoria
at the opera (she describes... |
| Textual Production | Jean Plaidy | The first volume seems almost to be marking time since the last in the previous series, Victoria in the Wings, which had appeared in March the same year: the future queen is still a... |
| Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | In 1897 ELL
contributed a section on George Eliot
to the collaborative Women Novelists of Queen Victoria
's Reign—which a fellow-contributor, Emma Marshall
, thought detestable. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 305 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. |
| Textual Production | Flora Shaw | In 1883, FS
made plans to write a history of England to be titled From Queen to Queen (Elizabeth
to Victoria
) but she never completed it. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable. 43 Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 64-75. 66 |
| Textual Production | Harriet Downing | HD
composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria
's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library
. 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. |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham
lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field... |
| Textual Production | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
published two letters on the Contagious Diseases Acts and related issues, addressing one to Queen Victoria
and one to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
. 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. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 104 |
Timeline
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
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October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
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January 1853
Following Napoleon III
's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
1854: Queen Victoria sat for the first photographic...
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1854
Queen Victoria
sat for the first photographic portraits of the royal family, taken by Roger Fenton
.
10 June 1854: Queen Victoria reopened the Crystal Palace...
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10 June 1854
Queen Victoria
reopened the Crystal Palace on its new site in Sydenham just south of London.
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
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1855
When Napoleon III
and his wife, the Empress Eugénie
, visited Queen Victoria
, Eugénie brought the first crinoline to England with her.
29 January 1856: Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross...
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29 January 1856
Queen Victoria
instituted the Victoria Cross for acts of conspicuous valour.
May 1856: Ellen Terry made her theatrical debut at...
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May 1856
Ellen Terry
made her theatrical debut at the Princess's Theatre
, watched by an audience which included Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert
.
1857: The Department of Practical Art constructed...
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1857
The Department of Practical Art
constructed a facility on eighty-seven acres of land in South Kensington.
1858: Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to become the...
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1858
Queen Victoria
chose Ottawa to become the capital of Canada.
9 April 1858: Queen Victoria signed the royal charter giving...
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9 April 1858
Queen Victoria
signed the royal charter giving London University
(then comprised of two schools, University College
and King's College
) the revolutionary power of offering courses and degrees externally.
2 August 1858: Government and military control of India...
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2 August 1858
Government and military control of India was transferred by the Government of India Act from the East India Company
to the British Crown
after the successful suppression of the Indian Mutiny by the British army.
5 August 1858: The first effective transatlantic telegraph...
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5 August 1858
The first effective transatlantic telegraph cable was laid between Ireland and Newfoundland. During the celebrations, Queen Victoria
and President James Buchanan
exchanged messages over the cable.
4 May 1874: Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler, exhibited...
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4 May 1874
Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler
, exhibited her painting Roll Call at the Royal Academy
; it was bought by Queen Victoria
.
October 1860: Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn; or, The...
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October 1860
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