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Margaret Homans

Royal Representations

Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876

322 pages, 47 halftones  6 x 9  © 1998
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Cloth $55.00

ISBN: 9780226351131   Published February 1999

Paper $22.00

ISBN: 9780226351148   Published January 1999

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Forward, by Catharine R. Stimpson
Introduction: The Queen's Agency
1. Queen Victoria's Sovereign Obedience
"The Queen Has No Equal": The Problem of a Female Monarchy
Privacy on Display: The Queen as Wife and Mother
The Queenly Courtship of Elizabeth Barrett
Photographic Realism's Abject Queens
2. Queen Victoria's Widowhood and the Making of Victorian Queens
The Invisible Queen
Domestic Queens: Miss Marjoribanks
Making Queens: "Of Queens' Gardens" and the Alice Books
3. The Widow as Author and the Arts and Powers of Concealment
Bagehot's The English Constitution
The Queen's Books: The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort
The Queen's Books: Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands
The Reform Bill and the Queen's Footnotes
4. Queen Victoria's Memorial Arts
Albert Memorials
Tennyson's Idylls of the King as an Albert Memorial
Cameron's Photographic Idylls: Allegorical Realism and Memorial Art
Epilogue: Empire of Grief
Notes
Index
Subjects



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