"The queen has no equal": the problem of a female monarchy -- Privacy on display: the queen as wife and mother -- The queenly courtship of Elizabeth Barrett -- Photographic realism's abject queens -- The invisible queen -- Domestic queens: Miss Marjoribanks -- Making queens: "Of queens' gardens" and the Alice books -- Bagehot's The English constitution -- The queen's books: the early years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort -- The queen's books: Leaves from the journal of our life in the highlands -- The Reform bill and the queen's footnotes -- Albert memorials -- Tennyson's Idylls of the king as an Albert memorial -- Cameron's photographic Idylls: allegorical realism and memorial art
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-275) and index
