Victoria’s feminist Legacy: how nineteenth-century women imagined the queen
Ulrich, Melanie Renee
PhD Thesis, Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin (2005)
Abstract
“Victoria’s Feminist Legacy: How Nineteenth-Century Women Imagined the Queen” examines Victoria’s impact on the development of early feminism. Although her vehemently expressed anti-feminist sentiments have come to dominate the Queen’s reputation, during her life her persona as
a public and politically active woman inspired other women to reassess their beliefs about what 
women could do or be. This dissertation explores how the works of Victorian women writers, artists, and thinkers testify to the Queen’s feminist influence.
Chapter 1, “The Commercial Queen: Intimations of Feminism,” explores how Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Letitia E. Landon, and Caroline Norton balanced public anxieties and expectations regarding the monarch at the outset of her reign with the radical and disruptive potential she possessed.
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