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- Goldsmithery, Queen Victoria, Coronations, Royal Crowns

Her picture is on the five-pound British note. She brought about prison reform in Britain, which spread to civilized nations in Europe and beyond. Her school of nursing inspired and supported the work of Florence Nightingale. She was the first woman to address Parliament and did so several times. She was visited in her prison-reform work by kings and queens of Denmark and Prussia. She was a recorded Friends minister who provided Bibles for people, established multiple organizations for social reform, challenged the death penalty and slavery, and who was sponsored by Queen Victoria. Referred to as "the Angel of the Prisons," her name was Elizabeth Fry-a noteworthy Friend, indeed!

- by Paul N Anderson
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- Religion, Social Work, Women's Studies, Social Sciences

This MA Thesis analyses hundreds of Victorian newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and other media to investigate how Victorian perceptions of Napoleon I affected perceptions of Napoleon III and vice versa. It is argued that Victorian Britons frequently viewed Napoleon III through the lens of Napoleon I with significant consequences for the legacies of both Emperors today. Through analysis of letters to the editor and newspapers which appealed to all classes of society, this thesis does not produce a history of ‘Great Men’ from the top-down but rather an analysis of how such men were perceived from the bottom up and how popular perceptions helped shape their legacies. Why is it that Napoleon I, once the most hated and feared enemy of Britain, has obtained an almost celebrity-like status in Britain today whilst Napoleon III, the friend of Queen Victoria and champion of the entente cordiale is largely forgotten by the general public? The answer, this thesis argues, can be found in Victorian perceptions of both Napoleons, and in the resulting perceptions of themselves.

- by Irena Dadashyan
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- Education, Educational Leadership, British History, Higher Education

Las vidas de las seis reinas retratadas en esta obra distan mucho de ser un cuento de hadas. No tuvieron grandes historias de amor porque sus matrimonios eran concertados. Algunas fueron emperatrices en contra de su voluntad y sufrieron depresiones constantes, otras escandalizaron al reino con su extravagante comportamiento o compartieron un trágico final. Todas tienen en común la soledad, la nostalgia, la falta de amor o el sufrimiento por la presión de tener que concebir un heredero al trono. También comparten la dolorosa pérdida de sus descendientes, los fracasos matrimoniales y el sentirse extranjeras en una corte donde no fueron bien recibidas.

- by Elisabet Poyo
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- Spanish Literature, Gender Studies, Sex and Gender, Women's History

The Philadelphia Times included a detailed account of a commemoration of King Charles the Martyr in its January 30, 1897 issue. The article narrates the unveiling of a painting of the Royal Martyr (originally painted with an elderly Queen Victoria's permission for the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York) at the Church of the Evangelists, Philadelphia, a major early American center of Anglo-Catholic activity.

- by Richard Mammana
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- Liturgy, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), Queen Victoria, The Episcopal Church
- by Manon Burz-Labrande
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- History, Queen Victoria
- by Ariane Sabet
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- International Relations, Political Philosophy, Leadership, Baha'i studies

Today we tend to see India as the largest democracy on the subcontinent of Asia and our natural ally along with our other democratic ally, Great Britain. India and the independent countries that were created out of the British Raj,... more

- by David S Cohen
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- History of India, Bangladesh, Free Trade, Muslim

The Victorian Royal Nursery attempts to shed more light on the nursery for the children of Queen Victoria. It examines the creation, organisation, and financing of the nursery, with a consideration of the most important individuals who looked after the Royal children, namely the medical staff, wet nurses, monthly nurses, permanent nurses, governesses and sub-governesses. The study is based mostly on the numerous unpublished documents from the Royal Archives at Windsor as well as the hitherto little-known or unknown sources like the journal of the royal accoucheur Dr Robert Ferguson or the diary of head-nurse Mrs Ann Thurston.

- by Mariusz Misztal
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- Children and Families, Victorian cultural studies, Queen Victoria, Motherhood

In this highly acclaimed, classic biography of Queen Victoria who, with her irresistible sincerity defined an era and etched her name into history by the power of her personality, Lytton Strachey created a humane portrait of the iconic... more

- by Miriam Jacob
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- English Literature, British History, British Monarchy, Queen Victoria

In this paper, the main literary branches of Victorian literature, alongside the social, moral and political environment of this epoch will be explained. Throughout these pages, the needs of an era greatly affected by the arriving of the Industrial Revolution will be portrayed through the explanation of how the writers of the most influential literary genres of their time attempted to show their criticism towards the consequences of Industrialism, thus making a previous contextualization of this epoch imperative, so the reader may be able to picture the decadence of a period overcome by extreme poverty and an overwhelming working class prejudiced by an aristocratic minority, through the exemplification of the social and moral environment in works from writers like Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens. The main method conducted for the creation of this paper was the consultation of secondary and tertiary sources such as Internet articles and literary analysis from academics of Higher Education institutions. Throughout this research, it became evident that all three movements (Aestheticism, Realism and Romanticism) shared the common goal of functioning as counter-movements of the Industrial Revolution and of the consequences it brought to British society, therefore making the present analysis necessary to contextualize a period where technology, rational thought and social decadence became a rule.

- by Susana Arenas
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- Romanticism, Victorian Literature, World Literature, Aestheticism

MA Thesis at the University of Chicago

- by Bonnie Roos
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- James Joyce, Queen Victoria, Great Irish Famine, Ulysses

The chapter explores how an academic history book on nobility is created. It tackles methodological and technical steps, as well se theoretical problems and connects them to the postmodern historiography field. It shows how historians... more

- by Radmila Svarickova Slabakova
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- Research Methodology, Habsburg Studies, Postmodernism, Nobility

On the eve of her wedding, Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria a large sapphire brooch surrounded by 12 brilliants. Nothing was known about the origins of this jewel until correspondence detailing the sale of the brooch emerged. It was... more

- by Erik Schoonhoven
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- British Royal History, Dutch History, Jewellery, Queen Victoria

It is a critical edition of extracts from a virtually unknown diary of Dr Robert Ferguson, a physician and accoucheur to Queen Victoria. Acquired only in 2009, the diary is housed in the archives of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Its highlights include the details of royal arrangements for the birth of the Princess Royal, record of Ferguson's interview with the Queen regarding her mental health in 1841, and most intimate character sketches of the Queen, her husband, Prince Albert, their closest advisor Baron Christian Stockmar, or the Queen's former governess and confidante, Baroness Louise Lehzen.

- by Mariusz Misztal
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- Queen Victoria, Royal Nursery, Household of Queen Victoria
- by Steve Arnott
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- Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rossetti, Christina, Iris Murdoch

Women’s underwear has gone through quite the transformations throughout the years from the preliminary hints of undergarments in Ancient Egypt to the Victorian Age and now in its apex. Undergarments can be viewed as a necessary invention for several reasons, but for women especially, these articles of clothing meet a functional and leisurely need. In the history of costume, underwear seems to be a fixed mainstay staple throughout most of modern historical time periods. The beauty of the subject of panties in particular lies in the fact that it is a multi-functional piece of clothing that serves to hold items in place and, at the same time, helps the woman fulfill an intimate role. Additionally, there is a utility of panties for day and night, as seen with the incorporation of lingerie with the French. The aim of this paper is to historically investigate the evolutionary role of panties and pierce into the notions of its function. Specifically, a new perspective on the function of the panties will be introduced in this paper by looking into the cultures of Ancient Egypt and the American Navajo women and compare that to the heavy use of underwear during Victorian times

- by Luis Carvalho
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- History, Botany, Horticulture, History Of London
- by Alessandra Serra
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- Discourse Analysis, Semiotics, Translation Studies, Languages and Linguistics

Au rez-de-chaussée du palais de Buckingham, ouvrant largement sur les jardins, se trouve encore de nos jours un vaste salon de réception qui ne manquera pas d’interpeller d’éventuels visiteurs français. En effet, ici au cœur emblématique de la monarchie britannique, la « 1855 Room » présente de part et d’autre de sa cheminée, encastrés dans le mur, deux grands portraits en pied de l’empereur Napoléon III et de l’impératrice Eugénie d’après Franz Xaver Winterhalter .
Ce parti décoratif étonnant, qui a survécu aux vicissitudes de l’histoire, a été voulu en son temps par la reine Victoria pour célébrer ce qu’il est bien convenu d’appeler la visite triomphale du couple impérial en Angleterre entre les 16 et 22 avril 1855. Dans une surenchère enthousiaste caractéristique, le très anglophile Napoléon III va ainsi très vite envisager une visite retour de Victoria en terre française dès l’été 1855, qu’il voudra bien entendu d’un faste inégalé. Premières demeures du pays, l’ensemble des résidences impériales s’en retrouvent ainsi mobilisées afin d’accueillir la reine et sa suite lors d’un somptueux périple prévu pour durer à l’origine près de deux semaines. Le château de Fontainebleau, sans doute considéré par son envergure historique comme le parfait homologue de Windsor, est naturellement tout désigné pour recevoir avec tous les honneurs les célèbres hôtes royaux.

- by Nicolas PERSONNE
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- French Second Empire, British Monarchy, Queen Victoria, Fontainebleau
- by francoise LE JEUNE
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- British Empire, India, Queen Victoria

This publication deals with the metamorphoses of the Brisbane Victoria Bridge. It includes an Appendix Palladiana where the ideological "matrix" of the Palladian Manifesto Villa "La Rotunda" is said to be the "Tetraktys" (the upper numbers/part of the Pythagorean Lambda). Furthermore the root two rectangle, Serlio's "proportione diagonea", is also said to be at the basis of the Villa's proportionality patterns (see Appendix Palladiana - with figures - Palladian proportionality patterns), "along all axes" (Morgan, 1960), making the masterpiece "triaxially symmetrical", with a section a la "doron" (see Vitruvius and March, 1998), which, according to the author, has given origin to the famous name of the Golden Section (in Italian: Sezione D'Oro - originally allegedly called a "Sezione 'Doron' ").

- by Daria Gomez Gane
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- Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Leonardo da Vinci, Queen Victoria

This essay explore the figure of the Amazon warrior woman in nineteenth-century literature. African and English women, including Queen Victoria, are both represented as “Amazons.” Colonizers are represented as Amazons, as are the colonized. According to the Victorian writers and artists surveyed here, the figure of the Amazon also transgresses distinctions between traditional male and female roles. She is a woman and yet also a soldier. Representations of the Amazon do not consistently or strictly adhere to the ways in which colonial ideology divided up the world into the powerful (white men) and the powerless (everyone else). The Amazon is a mobile archetype that appears, at times, to challenge the fixity of those boundaries. Some representations of the Amazon appear to endorse colonialism by showing, for example, that African Amazons need saving from their incivility. Representations of her extraordinary powers (martial and sexual) appear to offer an implicit critique of the assumptions about gender and race that underwrite colonial ideology. To modern critics, at least, these representations reveal some limits of colonial ideology within a body of colonial literature and art that otherwise seems to support colonialism.

- by Maeve Adams
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- Gender and Sexuality, Victorian Literature, Feminism, Edward Said
- by Luis Carvalho
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- History, European History, European Studies, Art History

Резюме. Статията е посветена на темата за сведенията, които съдържат дневниците на британската кралица Виктория за Кримската война (1853-1856). Дневниците на кралицата са ценен източник на информация за този етап от развитието на Източния... more

- by Lubomir Krastev
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- Queen Victoria, Crimean War

The article explores the evolution of the discourse of taste during the XVIII and XIX centuries, adopting the categories of pure and impure as paradigmatic keys to the subject. Reyn-olds' standards of aesthetic judgement, and the voices of Hogarth and Richard Payne Knight, mark the drive towards taste as subjective response. Thus young Marianne Dashwood can judge whether Edward Ferrars' taste is pure or impure. Taste, despite Hazlitt's warnings, becomes synonymous with fashion, and fashion is an impure element, conditioned by new technologies, allowing the manufacture of endless replicas from original art works. The Great Exhibition is the pivotal event that consecrates the productions of industry, commerce and art. Such triangulation thrives on the scientific progress of chemistry, which presides over the offer of new materials, colours, printing techniques, Parian marble, electroplated metal, allowing all kinds of cheap imitations. John Ruskin comments upon the triumphant progress of chemistry: and often uses analogies or metaphors taken from this science in order to explain the obscure processes of the artist's associative imagination. Purity of taste – or its impure connections with chemical works and their products – are discussed by Ruskin. But the paradigm pure/impure is also relevant to the work of Victorian art critics. Walter Pater and Vernon Lee recur to chemistry in order to explain the mysteries of the subjective response to art. Writers follow, such as Collins and Stevenson, who weld the strange mixture of pure and impure elements in human nature to chemistry, and thus place on the epistemic horizon of this science the fundamental questions of their age.

- by Francesca Orestano
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- Aesthetics, Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature, Walter Pater

In this article I analyse a selection of Alan Moore’s characters and their vicious behaviour in three graphic novels that belong to the period when, according to Roger Luckhurst, a ‘contemporary trauma culture’ began to develop (2008: 2). I first centre on the representation of violence as a by-product of traumatic past events. Violence is thus seen as the result of a pathological personality that is developed after some traumatic experience that continues to flood the individual’s mind in haunting memories and anxieties. Violent protagonists like Rorschach in Watchmen, Sir William Gull in From Hell, or V in V for Vendetta, can be analysed with support from trauma theorists such as Cathy Caruth or Dominick LaCapra.
The character of V will also prove helpful in identifying a second category of violence in Alan Moore’s fictions, that of terrorism. V is placed in-between the traumatized victim and the terrorist perpetrator, thus questioning clear-cut Manichean juxtapositions of good and evil. This second category of characters can be considered terrorists as they employ violence with political purposes, either to maintain the status quo by oppression and aggression, or to transform the political situation of the world by means of mass-scale assassination. In this group I will describe the ‘institutional terrorism’ of political leaders (Queen Victoria, Adam Susan). On the other hand, ‘subversive terrorism’ (1994: 6) is represented by Adrian Veidt in Watchmen, a character who becomes a mass-scale terrorist when he kills half of the population of New York in order to save the world from the escalating tension of the Cold War.
A third type of terrorist violence is described in the final part of this article. Social structures of patriarchal violence impose their values by means of a type of terrorism that is exerted at a microsocial level. For this part of the analysis I will draw on the idea of ‘microsocial terrorism’, understood as that sort of terrorism that takes place on a domestic level, inside the microsociety of the family, where women and children become terrorised by abusive patriarchal structures. This kind of terrorism finds examples through the analysis of the double standard of morality in From Hell; the slackness of the community confronted with the massacre of women like Kitty Genovese in Watchmen; and the domestic violence depicted in V for Vendetta.

- by Andres Romero-Jodar
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- English Literature, Terrorism, Literature, Political Violence and Terrorism

A partir das vivências do casal real D. Maria II de Bragança e D. Fernando de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha, abordam-se as sociabilidades dinásticas europeias de meados de Oitocentos, envolvendo as famílias reinantes de Inglaterra, França, Bélgica, Brasil e Espanha e ducado de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha.
Família Coburgo. Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry. Famílias reais de Portugal (Bragança), Brasil (Bragança), Inglaterra (Hanover), França (Orleães), Áustria (Habsburgo), Bélgica (Coburgo), Espanha (Bourbon)

- by Yopie Prins
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- Gender Studies, Victorian poetry, Queen Victoria, Sappho
- by Katalin Schrek
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- Russian Foreign Policy, Political History of Belgium, Russia, Queen Victoria

A fresh and intimate portrait of Queen Victoria 'at the play'. Through Victoria's diary, artwork and correspondence, we see her as enraptured spectator, bountiful patron and tyrannical director of private theatricals. At times, she appears formidable. More frequently she is impudent, high-spirited and unruly; a woman who delights in gory melodramas and circus acts. 'Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age' gives readers a deeply personal account of her lifelong devotion to the stage. It will appeal to anyone interested in monarchy's place in popular culture

- by Richard Schoch
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- Theatre Studies, Victorian Studies, Theatre History, Popular Culture
- by Julia Kinzler
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- Iconography, Film Studies, Genre, Sexuality

Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown. By Michael Ledger-Lomas. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, Pp. 347. $40.00); Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith. By Elesha J. Coffman. Oxford: oxford University Press, 2021, 218. Pp.... more

Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown. By Michael Ledger-Lomas. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, Pp. 347. $40.00);
Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith. By Elesha J.
Coffman. Oxford: oxford University Press, 2021, 218. Pp. 45.00.)

- by Sheryl A Kujawa-Holbrook, EdD, PhD
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- Religion, History, Religious Studies, Queen Victoria
- by juni juni
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- Iconography, Genre, Gender, Biopic

Despite reigning for sixty-four years, Queen Victoria’s renown for famous sayings is surprisingly meagre. Even her famous comeback – ‘We are not amused’ – is likely to be a myth, relying entirely on Caroline Holland’s nonchalant and ambiguous allusion to it in her private diary entry of 2nd January 1900. This article maps out post-Victorian uses and abuses of this simple saying. It acts as a case study of how humour was used in depicting this saying to comment on Victorian attitudes to class, gender, age, and humour itself (or a lack of it). ‘We are not amused’, naturally goads us to question what had initially been intended as amusing? And whom does the ‘we’ imply? Such questions were no less pressing when Holland’s diary was published posthumously in 1919, form which Queen Victoria’s saying quickly appealed to a general public already stirred by Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918). Early twentieth-century interest in the saying capitalised on the lack of factual documental...

- by Duncan Marks
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- Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Victorian Studies, Modern British History

Stórbrotið, töfrandi og átakamikið líf kóngafólks er vinsælt efni í sjónvarpi og kvikmyndum. Sem dæmi má nefna þættina The Crown sem Netflix framleiðir og hafa slegið í gegn svo um munar, en þeir fjalla um fyrstu áratugi Elísabetar II í embætti Bretlandsdrottningar. Líf drottninga frá ýmsum tímabilum Bretlandssögunnar, hvort sem þær eru lífs eða liðnar, virðist heilla áhorfendur svo mjög að því sem næst endalaus markaður virðist vera fyrir framleiðslu sjónvarpsþátta og kvikmynda um þetta efni. Að auki hafa á netinu sprottið upp heilu aðdáendaklúbbarnir sem virðast taka hlutverk sitt mjög alvarlega og berjast með kjafti og klóm fyrir málstað drottninga sem létust fyrir jafnvel hundruðum ára.
Hér verður farið um víðan völl og fjallað um merkar breskar drottningar frá mismunandi tímaskeiðum og hvernig ævi þeirra, persónuleika og áhrifum í samfélagi og sögu er miðlað í sjónvarpi og kvikmyndum á tuttugustu og fyrstu öldinni. Leitast er við að greina áhrif þeirra á dægurmenningu í tengslum við aðdáendaklúbba internetsins og samfélagsmiðlanna. Sérstök áhersla er lögð á umfjöllun um Elísabetu fyrstu, móður hennar Önnu Boleyn og Maríu Stúart Skotadrottningu, en kvikmyndir og þættir um Viktoríu og Elísabetu II verða einnig til umfjöllunar að einhverju leiti.

- by Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir
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- History, Film Studies, Celebrity Culture, Mary Queen of Scots
- by Stephen Dewsbury
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- 18th & 19th Centuries, Capital Punishment, Queen Victoria, Queen Anne