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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Red Pottage was highly controversial when it was published, and its negative depiction of the clergy was denounced from pulpits (though Queen Victoria
was rumoured to have read and enjoyed it). One church periodical went... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | |
| Literary responses | Caroline Clive | The volume firmly established CC
's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart
wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed... |
| 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, 1930. 16, 63 |
| 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, 1995. 214 |
| Literary responses | Marie Corelli | As Janet Casey
reports, Nearly half of her books were international best-sellers, and it was not unusual for a new Corelli novel to sell out on its first day of publication. qtd. in Nufftus, William, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 156. Gale Research, 1996. 156: 87 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press, 1954–1978, 9 vols. 3: 10 |
| 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 | 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, 1961. 111 qtd. in Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 165 |
| 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, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 208 |
| 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, 1940. 80 |
| names | Doreen Wallace |
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| names | Lady Ottoline Morrell |
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Timeline
1885: Queen Victoria sent a £500 donation to the...
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1885
Queen Victoria
sent a £500 donation to the Hospital for Women
in Soho Square.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
92
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.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
159-60
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
311
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
.
Dyhouse, Carol. No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities, 1870-1939. UCL Press, 1995.
38
Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth, editor. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986. Hambledon Press, 1990.
xix
Trickett, Rachel. “Women’s Education”. St. Hugh’s: One Hundred Years of Women’s Education in Oxford, edited by Penny Griffin, Macmillan, 1986, pp. 5-14.
13
Spurling, Hilary. Ivy When Young. Victor Gollancz, 1974.
144
Dyhouse provides a date of 1883, but other sources agree on 1886.
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.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
74, 85
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.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
74, 85
1887: The institution which became Queen Mary College...
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1887
The institution which became Queen Mary College
was founded in London as the People's Palace
.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
174
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1619
9 April 1887: Following the appeal judgment which ordered...
Women writers item
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.
Burton, Antoinette. “Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain”. Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century, edited by George Robb and Nancy Erber, New York University Press, 1999, pp. 33-56.
44-8, 50
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.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
215-254
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.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
134
Higginbotham, Ann R. “Respectable Sinners: Salvation Army Rescue Work with Unmarried Mothers, 1884-1914”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 216-33.
217
Begbie, Harold. Life of William Booth. Macmillan, 1920.
122
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3288 (1890): 578
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
.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
97
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.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
630-1
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
1 January 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal began operatio...
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1 January 1894
The Manchester Ship Canal began operation.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
139
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
321
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.
“A Century of Caring”. Victorian Order of Nurses.
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.
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 125
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2024.
8: 336
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
317
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