Julia Baird
Margaret Harris reviews 'Victoria: The woman who made the modern world' by Julia Baird
Margaret Harris
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The Empire over which Queen Victoria ruled for more than sixty years no longer paints the globe red. Yet Victoria is still ubiquitous. She is memorialised in the Commonwealth of Australia – formally proclaimed just three weeks before she died on 22 January 1901 – in the names of two states and innumerable other places, along with material objects like statues an ...
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March 2017, no. 389