Queen Victoria, Her Gracious Life and Glorious Reign
Title | Queen Victoria, Her Gracious Life and Glorious Reign PDF eBook |
Author | John Coulter |
Publisher | Guelph, Ont. : World Publishing Company |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Remaking Queen Victoria
Title | Remaking Queen Victoria PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Homans |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1997-10-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521573795 |
Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays goes beyond the facts of biography and official history to explore the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, meanings she held for her subjects around the world and even for those outside her empire, who made of her a multifaceted icon serving their social and economic needs. In her paradoxical position as neither consort nor king, she baffled expectations throughout her reign. She was a model of wifely decorum and solid middle-class values, but she also became the focus of anxieties about powerful women, and - increasingly - of anger about Britain's imperial aims. Each essay analyses a different aspect of this complex and fascinating figure. Contributors include noted scholars in the field of literature, cultural studies, art history, and women's studies.
Queen Victoria
Title | Queen Victoria PDF eBook |
Author | John Coulter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry
Title | The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 756 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Empress
Title | Empress PDF eBook |
Author | Miles Taylor |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2018-10-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300243421 |
“A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria’s] place in colonial Indian affairs.”(Journal of Modern History) In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in the last decades. Taylor also reveals the way in which Victoria’s influence as empress contributed significantly to India’s modernization, both political and economic. This is, in a number of respects, a fresh account of imperial rule in India, suggesting that it was one of Victoria’s successes. “Readers encounter a detail-attentive and independently minded monarch . . . .Information, offered with verve and occasional humor, fills chapters of Empress with little-known details of Victoria’s active rule as Empress.” —Adrienne Munich, Victorian Studies “This is a nuanced portrait of an empire rich in contradiction.” —Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects “Beautifully written and subtly crafted, this book provides a critical history of the cultural, political, and diplomatic significance of Queen Victoria's role as Empress of India.” —Tristram Hunt, Director of Victoria and Albert Museum “This is a highly intelligent, wonderfully lucid and well researched book that rests on an impressive array of Indian as well as European sources. It makes a powerful case for re-assessing Queen Victoria's own role and political and religious ideas in regard to the subcontinent.” —Linda Colley, author of Britons
Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria
Title | Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | London : G. Routledge |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sixty Years A Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign
Title | Sixty Years A Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Herbert Maxwell |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Pages | 754 |
Release | 1897-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1465573968 |
AN attempt has been made in the following pages to give a general view of the principal events in the reign of Queen Victoria and the changes resulting from the development of the means of travel and communication, the accumulation of wealth, the acquirement of political power by the people, and the spread of education among them. In making this attempt the author had to choose between compiling a dry chronicle, and placing before his readers the salient points in a period of rapid and successful progress. He chose the latter; but, in order to carry his purpose into effect within the limits assigned to him, he had to pass in silence over the names of many persons distinguished in politics, science, literature, art, and warfare. Those, or the descendants of them, whose achievements entitle them to an honoured place in the annals of their age, will understand that it was possible only to find room for mention of a few of the illustrious band who have contributed to the great work of empire and civilisation. Especially in regard to literature, it may be felt that the reference to that department is out of all proportion to its importance. But the subject is so vast that it is almost hopeless to deal with, to any good purpose, in two or three pages. Attention has, however, been drawn in the concluding chapter to the effects of universal compulsory education on our national prosperity, moral character, and intellectual life. In respect of its action on the material well-being of the population, it is not unreasonable to attribute to its influence part of the marked decrease in pauperism in the last quarter of a century, even if the more equable diffusion of wealth be reckoned the principal factor in that process. If the results quoted cannot be proved to be the direct outcome of universal education, at all events they synchronise in a remarkable manner with the period of its existence. Turning next to the literary habits of the people, it is not possible to doubt the important bearing which recreative reading has upon the national character. We are not, and probably never shall be, a nation of students, but we have become within the limits of the present reign a nation of readers. The press of the country is free—free in a sense that has never been tolerated in any other State. Public men and measures are submitted to searching criticism in a degree that would be wholly intolerable but for the general high tone maintained in British journalism. There are few things more remarkable in our civilisation than the abundance of excellent writing supplied to the daily and weekly press, and the sound morality which pervades it.