... the congratulatory rhetoric that surrounded the event, the conservative, retiring queen emerged as the durable symbol of her dynamic, aggressively businesslike realm. In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. Etched by conflict with her prime ministers, the birth of nine children, and the ... , Singapore, Burma, Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Rhodesia, Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. By the 1890s one out of every four people on earth was a "subje...

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... 'local' community was being lost. Society became more fragmented and individual identities more fluid. The British Empire, which had expanded under Queen Victoria and in 1900 had reached 13 million square miles, also began to disintegrate. The Boer War (1899–1902), which was fought by the ... away in more traditional modes. What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. The year 1900 marked only a chronological entry ... poe...

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