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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | The Queen
personally requested a copy of the poem about the mining tragedy. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 214 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Flower Adams | It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria
, King Edward VII
, and United States president William McKinley
. Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman
's Lead Kindly Light, it... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | The tribute was much appreciated by the Queen
. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 111 Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 165 |
| Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | The book quickly became a best-seller, but elicited negative reviews.Edgar Allan Poe
spoke against the young female narrator for exhibiting too much self-confidence, but conceded that the writing had vivacity of style. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 84 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Her publisher arranged for Queen Victoria
to have a copy and the monarch's reaction was relayed to Rigby: The Queen sat down and read it through without stopping. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 208 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roberts | Mary J. Y. Harris
, biographer of Frances Mary Peard
, calls this MR
's best-known novel, and says it was a favourite with Queen Victoria
. Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith. 16, 63 |
| Literary responses | Lucy Walford | Another response had a more immediate impact on LW
: that of the monarch. Through correspondence with the Duchess of Roxburghe, The duchess may be the seventy-year-old Susanna Stephenia
, wife of the 6th Duke... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | |
| Literary Setting | Jean Plaidy | The later Plaidy novels centre on the lives of Europe's historical figures, from the Norman conquest, through the Renaissance, and to Victoria
's reign. This focus provides an immediate need to publish in a series... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Jane Porter | JP
, after sitting half an hour in the rain in Pall Mall waiting to see Queen Victoria
's wedding procession pass, marked the occasion with a poem. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 80 |
| Occupation | Alfred Tennyson | Having twice refused a title, AT
accepted, at the urging of Queen Victoria
, a baronetcy and seat in the House of Lords
, becoming the first English writer to be raised to the peerage. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan. 288 |
| Occupation | Ann Bridge | Of being a diplomatic wife AB
wrote, the job is a job, like any other, and has to be well done as regards dressing, entertaining, and those things that require domestic staff and some degree... |
| Occupation | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | His first task was to organize the celebrations on New Year's Day 1877 for Queen Victoria
's proclamation as Empress of India. The rest of his time as Viceroy was quite controversial. His policy towards... |
Timeline
1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...
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1885
21 August 1885: The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the...
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21 August 1885
The Criminal Law Amendment Act raised the age of sexual consent from thirteen to sixteen and criminalized both public and private sexual relations between males. It suppressed brothels and outlawed white slavery.
1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...
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1886
Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch
and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
1886: Royal Holloway College for women was founded...
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1886
Royal Holloway College
for women was founded at Egham in Surrey, twenty miles from London, and opened by Queen Victoria
.
1886: Advertising handbooks were still explicitly...
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1886
Advertising handbooks were still explicitly stressing that the monarch
and all related topics should be rigorously avoided in advertisements.
1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1887
9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...
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9 April 1887
Following the appeal judgment which ordered her to cohabit with her husband, Dadaji Bhikaji
, a letter by Rukhmabai
appeared in the LondonTimes.
Late July 1889: The trial began in Liverpool of American...
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Late July 1889
The trial began in Liverpool of American Florence Maybrick
on a charge of poisoning her English husband with arsenic.
February 1890: Queen Victoria appointed twenty-two members,...
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February 1890
Queen Victoria
appointed twenty-two members, including royalty and commoners with experience in district nursing associations, to the Council of the Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses
; this group later became known as the Queen's...
By 1 November 1890: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army,...
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By 1 November 1890
William Booth
, founder of the Salvation Army
, published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, a call for active Christianity and social reform.
26 November 1891: A private command performance of Mascagni's...
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26 November 1891
A private command performance of Mascagni
's Cavalleria Rusticana was presented at Windsor Castle for Queen Victoria
.
10 May 1893: Queen Victoria opened the Imperial Institute...
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10 May 1893
Queen Victoria
opened the Imperial Institute of the Colonies and India
in South Kensington to encourage and represent the arts, manufacturing, and commerce.
1 January 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal began operatio...
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1 January 1894
The Manchester Ship Canal began operation.
10 February 1897: The Victorian Order of Nurses was founded...
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10 February 1897
The Victorian Order of Nurses
was founded to commemorate the Queen
's diamond jubilee.
June 1897: Composer Edward Elgar's first London success...
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June 1897
Composer Edward Elgar
's first London success occurred with his Imperial March, composed for Queen Victoria
's Diamond Jubilee.
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