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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Queen Victoria"”.
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Queen Victoria's Library: The Place of Reading and Writing in Victoria's Political Education, Self-Improvement and Self-Curation
The record of Queen Victoria’s reading is certainly one of the most thorough and remarkable of any nineteenth-century individual; due to her position as monarch, her meticulous documentation, and the length of her life. Despite this, and the fact that she is one of the most written-about historical …
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QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel
… depicted character. I study one such character, Queen Victoria, to trace how Woolf and James Joyce reimagined how to depict a historical figure in a novel. What is Queen Victoria in the Modernist novel and why does she begin to appear? She is a symptom and symbol of a problem the Modern writers …
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Death in the Royal Family: Victorian Funeral Sermon Techniques in Tennyson's National Poetry
… memorial aesthetics played an integral role in Victorian England. Queen Victoria's poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, confronted death on a literary level. His national elegiac poetry — addressed to Victoria — is illuminated when read as a funeral sermon. By drawing out the funeral sermon …
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Bolivar : a biographical play in eight scenes
… in a popular an art medium as the theatre, like Queen Victoria, Jaurez, Zola, Disraeli, Lincoln, Edison any many others who have won glory behind the foodlights as well as in the theatre of world events.</p><p>
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Politics and Society in Westmeath, 1815-35
… the end of the European wars to the accession of Queen Victoria. Politics in the county took a new and highly volatile direction. The Roman Catholic bishops and clergy were a major influence on the new middle classes. The Church of Ireland, never more than a shadow organisation, was in retreat …
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The life and work of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
… of the Royal Family, his works commissioned by Queen Victoria and his portrait statues of her and other royalty. Chapter 4 examines Boehm's other portrait statues, with emphasis on his best documented works such as the monuments to Sir Francis Drake and the Duke of Wellington. Chapter 5 does the …
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Ah Jongumsobomvu! an analysis of the commemorative statues of Nkosi Jongumsobomvu Maqoma
… designed to stand opposite the statue of Queen Victoria in Qonce. Instead, it was erected on the mountain of Ntaba kaNdoda in 2015, a site of particular significance to both Maqoma and the history of the amaJingqi. Here, thirty-eight years after Maqoma's supposed bones were reinterred on …
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Charles Roberson, London colourman, and the trade in artists' materials 1820─1939
… important position Roberson was to occupy in the Victorian art world. Today, the company is less well known than its contemporaries, but in the nineteenth century it was one of the most influential colour houses in London, its customers spanning the social spectrum from Queen Victoria to …
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The theatrical strategies of James Robinson Planché
… of Charles Dickens, William Charles Macready and Queen Victoria, and scholarly texts illuminating the history, society, and art of the period.
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
… who lived and worked during the reign of Queen Victoria. It is the hope of the writer to show, in treating these artists who revived the truthfulness of nature as applied to painting, that those who were realists were also idealists, and that those who were romanticists were yet realists …
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The Wings of Song Stilled: The Rise and Decline of Felix Mendelssohn's Lieder in London, 1829-1915
… transformations that followed the death of Queen Victoria and the transition into modern, twentieth century London, were largely responsible for Mendelssohn’s songs disappearing from the concert repertoire. The data for this study were obtained primarily from music newspapers and journals …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… to the “accepted notions" about Lord Nelson, Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill and others. Plays such as The Hero Rises Up, Early Morning, and The Churchill Play can only arouse indignation in the audience and not a renunciation of received images. As I have shown, many spectators and …
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"To keep Christmas well": gender and consumerism in the Age of Industrialization
… urban centers of England between 1840, the year Queen Victoria and Prince Albert marry, and 1861, the year Albert died. My goal is to produce a literary and historical comparison of the impact of industrialization on three forms of consumerism—foodways, print materials (particularly how the press …
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Formulating Fantasies: Marriage in Victorian England and George Eliot's Middlemarch
… each other for the rest of their lives. In Victorian England, however, many men and women questioned traditional expectations concerning marriage. Society's norms in Britain dictated that marriage was the ultimate goal in the nineteenth century, and, according to Barbara Weiss, "there has …