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- Title
Queen Victoria and the Photographic Expression of Widowhood.
- Authors
Trompeteler, Helen
- Abstract
After Prince Albert's death in 1861, Queen Victoria began an extended period of mourning that remains indelibly linked to perceptions of her identity and visual representation. This article firstly addresses the place of photography in the construction of family memory and examines how Victoria used photography to articulate her private grief and to remember Albert in the context of both her immediate and extended family. Secondly, I seek to establish the ways in which this private image is made public and is circulated by Victoria to generate popular empathy and support for political ends. Lastly, I touch on the global reach of this, and question how mourning and widowhood are implicated in international royal networks and imperial power. Thus, the article reveals the photograph of the mourning widow as more than just an illustration of Victoria and her grief; rather, it shows how the medium shapes that grief and makes it useful for monarchy and empire.
- Subjects
VICTORIA, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901; WIDOWHOOD; BEREAVEMENT; EXTENDED families; GRIEF; EMPATHY; WIDOWS; MONARCHY
- Publication
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2022, Issue 33, p1
- ISSN
1755-1560
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.16995/ntn.4717