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 Ann Hawkshaw
The poems in this volume are generally didactic, teaching the importance of religious faith and moral virtues. The Oak Tree finds in the tree's slow growth a common parable for patience and diligence, which may...
Textual Features Virginia Woolf
Freshwater was the name of Julia Margaret Cameron 's estate on the Isle of Wight, where Anne Thackeray Ritchie had a cottage. The Stephen children had stayed there.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
75-6
This farcical presentation of Victorian life...
Textual Features Eliza Cook
The subsidiary poems, in many different (but all simple) stanza forms, deal in love, death, separation, self-sacrifice, and nostalgia. Together, love-songs and laments for times past predominate (old is a plangent word in EC
Textual Features Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
The unfortunate Lady Flora was headline news. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria 's mother, she had been suspected of illicit pregnancy. It turned out (after medical examination and humiliating publicity) that she had a disease...
Textual Production Hester Lynch Piozzi
The observations and reflections which, to the end of her life, HLP never stopped writing down, included tireless annotation of the works of others. She confessed: I have a Trick of writing in the Margins...
Textual Production Charlotte Eliza Humphry
Truth was still going strong in the years when CEH wrote for it (it survived, indeed, through various transformations until 1957), though Labouchere was denied a ministerial post because the weekly had drawn Queen Victoria
Textual Production Marie Belloc Lowndes
Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...
Textual Production Constance Lytton
In the last few months of her life CL worked at the putting together of an international cookery book. She delighted in mixing classes as well as nations: a cake recipe from Queen Victoria 's...
Textual Production Amelia Opie
In other late poems she had celebrated Princess Victoria (in 1836) and urged the United States to accept black people as equal to whites (in 1846).
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
428, 443-4
She now gave the bazaar organizers a...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
CN published A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth 's Marriage and Divorce Bill (after Cranworth had in fact withdrawn his bill).
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.
385
Atkinson, Diane. The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton. Preface Publishing, 2012.
33
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
249
Textual Production Angela Thirkell
In Coronation SummerAT produced a carefully-researched historical novel set in London in 1838, the year of Queen Victoria 's coronation.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977.
114, 110-11
Textual Production Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC kept a diary, from which her daughter quotes a passage about Queen Victoria 's death and the pathos of the end of the Victorian age.
MacCarthy, Mary. A Nineteenth-Century Childhood. Constable, 1985.
111
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES published another historical biography, Victoria of England; this became a best-seller.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
47
Textual Production Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG wrote a memorial to the Queen from the women of Nottingham about the Corn Laws controversy.
qtd. in
Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N .
2: 177
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published two biographies of English princesses: of Princess Sophia , daughter of George III (who bore a child to an unidentified father), in 1958, and of Queen Victoria 's daughters in 1982. In 1981...

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