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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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 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
Textual Production Jean Plaidy
In the last decade of her life, JP published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered...
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.
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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.
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Cumpston, Mary. “The Contribution to Ideas of Empire of Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 64-75.
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Textual Production Harriet Downing
HD composed an Ode on Qu[een] Victoria 's Coronation, of which a copy survives in the British Library .
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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 Anna Swanwick
In May 1898 and in 1899 AS addressed large audiences at the Jubilee ceremonies at both Queen's and Bedford College . On the former occasion she was introduced to Queen Victoria .
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Textual Production Charlotte Eliza Humphry
Truth was still going strong in the years when CEH wrote for it (it survived, indeed, through various transformations until 1957), though Labouchere was denied a ministerial post because the weekly had drawn Queen Victoria
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...
Textual Production Lydia Howard Sigourney
LHS commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria 's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson.
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1861: Publisher S. Beeton began production of Queen,...

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1861

Publisher S. Beeton began production of Queen, his successful women's magazine aimed at the rich and leisured classes.

1863: Germany and Denmark again clashed over the...

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1863

Germany and Denmark again clashed over the Schleswig-Holstein Duchies.

23 April 1863: Queen Victoria selected architect George...

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23 April 1863

Queen Victoria selected architect George Gilbert Scott 's ornate design for the Albert Memorial.

1 August 1863: Queen Victoria, in a letter to The Ladies...

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1 August 1863

Queen Victoria , in a letter to The Ladies of England, denounced the crinoline, calling it an indelicate, expensive, dangerous, and hideous article.

19 November 1867: Queen Victoria announced that the UK was...

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19 November 1867

Queen Victoria announced that the UK was at war with Amhara.

26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...

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26 July 1869

The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords .

October 1870: The General Council of Edinburgh University...

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October 1870

The General Council of Edinburgh University renewed their decision to keep female students out of the medical classes.

1871: Joseph Lister's carbolic spray gained wide...

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1871

Joseph Lister 's carbolic spray gained wide acceptance as an antiseptic after it was successfully used during the removal of an abscess from Queen Victoria 's left armpit.

14 April-31 October 1873: An International Exhibition was held in London...

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14 April-31 October 1873

An International Exhibition was held in London on the model of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
27641 (19 March 1873): 5; 27834 (30 October 1873): 6

20 May 1873: Seventeen labouring-class women at Ascott-under-Wychwood...

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20 May 1873

Seventeen labouring-class women at Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire prevented two men from going to work as blacklegs to replace others whom a farmer had sacked for joining the Agricultural Workers Union .

October 1873: At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society...

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October 1873

At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society of London , physician Sir William Withey Gull applied his newly-coined label anorexia nervosa as the term for a female nervous disorder. That same year a French...

May 1876: Russia, Austria and Germany presented the...

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May 1876

Russia, Austria and Germany presented the Berlin Memorandum to the Sultan of Turkey , demanding that he inaugurate reforms in the extensive Ottoman Empire.

1878: The first telephone company in the UK began...

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1878

The first telephone company in the UK began operations, at Chislehurst, Kent; it enabled private communication by phone between two points only.

3 August 1881: The Seventh International Medical Congress...

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3 August 1881

The Seventh International Medical Congress was officially opened in London by the Prince of Wales, bringing medical science onto an international public stage, albeit an all-male one.

1883: A French observer, Hector France, noted that...

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1883

A French observer, Hector France , noted that condoms were packaged with colour pictures of Prime Minister Gladstone and Queen Victoria and sold in Petticoat Lane, London.

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