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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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
John Murray passed on to ER letters in praise of her memorial publication.
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
The...
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
ER later allowed Victoria the...
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.
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Literary responses Fanny Aikin Kortright
FAK reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed...
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...
Leisure and Society Lady Colin Campbell
On 5 May 1875 Gertrude Blood, later LCC , was presented in the Queen 's Drawing Room at court: her formal entry into society.
Jordan, Anne. Love Well the Hour: The Life of Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911). Troubador Publishing Ltd.
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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.
169
Leisure and Society Elinor Glyn
About a year later, EG and her husband were present to see Queen Victoria 's body in its triple coffin crossing London on 2 February 1901.
Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton.
97
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Queen Victoria
I felt that I was...
Leisure and Society Sara Jeannette Duncan
Canadian SJD was presented to Queen Victoria , a moment in her career which she considered triumphal.
Fowler, Marian. Redney: A Life of Sara Jeannette Duncan. Anansi.
184
Leisure and Society Sarah Macnaughtan
SM was formally presented at Buckingham Palace in London as part of her coming out, which was a young girl's rite of passage into high society. She was presented to the Princess of Wales instead...
Leisure and Society Constance, Countess Markievicz
Constance Gore-Booth (later Markievicz) was presented at court to Queen Victoria , marking her coming out in London and Dublin high society.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora.
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Leisure and Society Charlotte Barnard
CB was presented to Queen Victoria on 29 May 1856.
Smith, Phyllis. The Story of Claribel. J. W. Ruddock & Sons Ltd., Lincoln.
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