Queen Victoria: A Woman on the Throne: Gender and Power

Queen Victoria: A Woman on the Throne: Gender and Power

by Dorothy Thompson (Author)

Synopsis

Queen Victoria came to the throne almost without resources, under threat from republicanism, in a period of social, political and economic turbulence. She died, having revived the failing image of the British monarchy, head of one of the world's richest families. Victoria was the first monarch in British history to combine the public role of head of state with the private one of wife and mother. Alone among married women she was not governed by laws which stipulated surrendering both name and fortune to one's husband. Yet she herself opposed the movement for women's rights.The complex effects of Victoria's gender on public attitudes and her own actions are brilliantly drawn out in this intriguing book.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New
Publisher: Virago
Published: 05 Jul 2001

ISBN 10: 1860499120
ISBN 13: 9781860499128

Author Bio
Dorothy Thompson was born in 1923 and grew up in London and France. She graduated from Cambridge having interrupted her studies to undertake war service. She was a lecturer in the history department at Birmingham University for many years and has also been a visiting professor at Rutgers, Pittsburgh and Brown Universities in the USA. She now lives in Worcester.