Queen Victoria

Remaking Queen Victoria

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.

Queen Victoria baffled expectations

In her paradoxical position as neither consort nor king, Queen Victoria baffled expectations throughout her reign. Victoria was a model of wifely decorum and solid middle-class values, but Queen Victoria 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.

Remaking Queen Victoria by Margaret Homans
ISBN: 0521574854

Queen Victoria's Children

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. Inevitably, as they married into European royal families their loyalties were divided and their lives dominated by political controversy.
This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but also of personal achievements in their own right, individual contributions to public life in Britain and overseas, and as the children of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.

Queen Victoria's Children by John Van Der Kiste
ISBN: 075093476X