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List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction MargaretHomans and Adrienne Munich; Part I. Nation-Making: 2. Nation and nationality:Queen Victoria in the developing narrative of Englishness Elizabeth Langland;3. Crossing the Atlantic with Victoria: American receptions, 1837-1901 MaryLoeffelholz; Part II. Queen Victoria and Other Queens: 4. Illustriouscompany: Victoria among other women in Anglo-American role model anthologiesAlison Booth; 5. Gloriana Victoriana: Victoria and the cultural memory ofElizabeth I Nicola J. Watson; 6. 'Be no more housewives, but queens': QueenVictoria and Ruskin's domestic mythology Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; 7. How welost the empire: retelling the stories of the Rani of Jansi and QueenVictoria Maria Jerinic; 8. 'I know what is due to me': self-fashioning andlegitimization in Queen Liliuokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen RobinBott; Part III. Victoria's Career, Early and Late: 9. Reading and writingVictoria: the conduct book and the legal constitution of female sovereigntyGail Turley Houston; 10. The wise child and her 'offspring': some changingfaces of Queen Victoria Susan P. Casteras; '11. I never saw a man sofrightened': the young queen and the Parliamentary bedchamber Karen Chase andMichael Levenson; 12. The 'Widdy's' empire: Queen Victoria as widow inKipling's soldier stories and in the Barrack-Room Ballads Dagni Bredeson;Part IV. Afterlife: 13. Queen Victoria in the Funnyhouse: Adrienne Kennedyand the rituals of colonial possession Janet Winston; Bibliography; Index.