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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB wrote for children from time to time. For the 1887 Jubilee, she wrote as Aunt Belinda a children's parable of Queen Victoria 's reign in an account of the reign of Queen Hermione of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosa Nouchette Carey
In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
The first canto of the poem, in a mix of heroic couplets and quatrains in the same iambic pentameter line, expresses loyal indignation at the cowardly tumult raised against a prince who is defenceless as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Her blank verse celebrates female historical figures ranging from Joan of Arc to Queen Victoria .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 302-3
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
Towards the end of this poem about the Crimean War, HS calls on the women of England. She regards them as formed with gentle hands / To minister to suffering,
Smythies, Harriet. Sebastopol. 1854.
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but she nevertheless...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Stickney Ellis
SSE justifies her examination of women's domestic life by comparing it to that enjoyed by Queen Victoria . She attempts to cut across class lines: it is the privilege of the humblest, as well as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Eliza Humphry
In the issue reprinted in New Zealand, Madge discusses Queen Victoria 's Golden Jubilee and describes in detail the luncheon-table set for the queen. She also suggests that old kid gloves can be repurposed into...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Kathleen E. Innes
The book contains additional chapters on local charities, the festivities on Queen Victoria 's Diamond Jubilee, the Great Fire, social clubs founded since 1900, and the erection of the Village Centre built by voluntary labour.
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,...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Naomi Jacob
The Shakespeare allusion is curious and suggestive. Antonio is replying to Shylock's famous speech claiming humanity for Jews; he justifies his own racial or religious hostility, and suggests that usury can only be pracised on...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Sinclair
The poet laureate at this date was Robert Southey, who however was to die early the next year. This work, which features sections of verse as well as prose, focuses on Queen Victoria 's visit...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
The pamphlet takes the form of a letter to an unnamed man. Along with the particular example of her husband, it attacks the government of England: but how could this country be anything but the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Muriel Jaeger
MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Emily Shore
The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

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