... 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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... " because he wrote novels during the Victorian period. The term Victorian describes the things and events that went on during the time when Queen Victoria reigned. Victoria was the daughter of the duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. She was born in 1819 and she inherited the throne of Great Britain at the age of eighteen when her uncle William ... were preoccupied in creating their own exclusive world. In their own world they had traditional values and patterns of behavior that came mostly from their origin. They played out this secret world to escape the harshness of real...

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