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 Features Sarah Stickney Ellis
This volume, published as by the author of The Women of England, is dedicated, by permission,
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. The Wives of England. Fisher, 1843.
prelims
to the Queen . SSE begins by addressing unmarried women, admonishing them not to regard marriage...
Textual Features Dorothy Wellesley
DW 's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington , doyenne of the albums...
Textual Features Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poem is innovative in its blend of novelistic discourse and subject-matter—its depiction of the urban landscape and contemporary social issues including wife-beating and prostitution were indebted to both the English and French novel—with the...
Textual Features Emily Faithfull
EF outlines the aims of the Victoria Press as originating in the simple fact of women being constantly thrown upon the world to get their daily bread by their own exertions,
Faithfull, Emily. “Victoria Press”. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the Langham Place Group, edited by Candida Ann Lacey, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 281-6.
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explaining that the...
Textual Features Ruth Rendell
Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria 's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a...
Textual Features Sylvia Townsend Warner
The novel is a retelling of the story of Cupid and Psyche (or Love and the Soul) by Apuleius , with names and characteristics transposed to Victorian England. The heroine is a young orphan who...
Textual Features Rumer Godden
She traced the breed from ancient China (though the London cultural attaché of Communist China denied all knowledge of these luxurious parasites) through its arrival in the west in the person of the canine...
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
Two of the essays deal directly with women's economic independence. About Money argues that every woman ought to be a woman of business
Craik, Dinah Mulock. About Money and Other Things. Macmillan, 1886.
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because our right or wrong use of money is the utmost...
Textual Features Marina Warner
The book includes text and images gathered from over fifty albums which Queen Victoria kept from her girlhood (beginning 13 July 1832) until her death (22 July 1901). They present a multi-faceted picture of the...
Textual Features Lucy Walford
The volume is the source of most biographical information about Walford. It runs from her early life and ends on a high note in her literary career: her appearance in front of Queen Victoria ...
Textual Features Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Her authors run from Jane Austen and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Harriet Martineau . Elizabeth Fry , Mary Carpenter , and Florence Nightingale represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville science, and...
Textual Features Harriet Beecher Stowe
She was more controversial in her defence of the Improvements in the Scottish Highlands. Much of HBS 's visit to Britain had been facilitated by the Duchess of Sutherland (Mistress of the Robes to...
Textual Features Margaret Forster
This leisurely novel centres on the relation of the present to the past, on ancestors (particularly grandmothers), and on the never-satisfied desire to know our origins. Isamay seems naive and immature: her somewhat desultory research...
Textual Features Augusta Gregory
The overtly Nationalist play is set in 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, in Mayo. Cathleen, a mysterious old woman who enters the play as a wandering beggar, represents the country of Ireland...
Textual Features Naomi Royde-Smith
These are cheerfully celebratory in tone. Paddington Station, Travellers and Fashions: An Unwritten Romance ends by quoting official directives not to allow Queen Victoria to be alarmed by knowing the speed of the royal...

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