Victoria's Self Fashioning: Curating the Royal Image for Dynasty, Nation, and Empire

Queen Victoria's name is used to identify an era. Over her long reign the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe. The birth of photography, and an explosion in print culture and the press, allowed her image to touch its furthest reaches. Her image, painted and sculpted, still dominates public spaces scattered throughout every continent. However, narratives of Victoria’s life tended to set her up as a curiously inert figure, detached from public life and politics. This project challenged these orthodoxies by examining Victoria as a pro-active political agent in the construction of an image for nineteenth century monarchy, and therefore directly implicated in what would become the Queen Victoria phenomenon.

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