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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Unsuitable for Publication : Editing Queen Victoria
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'When Queen Victoria died in 1901, two literary gentlemen took on a monumental task: selecting and editing her vast correspondence. The book they produced would influence perceptions of Victoria for generations to come – but it was not the full story.

The Queen's two editors, Baron Esher and Arthur Benson, were deeply eccentric men. Both graduates of Eton, they moved in a world of gentlemen's clubs, passionate male relationships and hidden political networks. Benson, a schoolmaster and author, suffered badly from depression. Esher was a shrewd and ambitious politician, a powerful puller of royal strings – and wrote incestuous letters to his son. Together, they would decide how the Queen was remembered.

Based on unprecedented access to the royal archives, Unsuitable for Publication reveals how key aspects of Victoria's life were deemed unfit for public consumption: her experience of motherhood, her struggle to combine the roles of ruler and wife, and her intimate friendships with other royal European women. Yvonne Ward reveals how and why these excisions were made and how they have skewed our image of Victoria ever since.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2013 .
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      Extent: 208p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.

        Published:01/04/2013

      ISBN: 9781863955942 (paperback), 1863955941

Works about this Work

Books for Your Bedside Beverley Kingston , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , November vol. 24 no. 4 2013; (p. 10)

— Review of Ginger for Pluck : The Life and Times of Georgina King Roger Cross , Jennifer, M. T. Carter , 2013 single work biography ; The Edgeworth David Women Jennifer Horsfield , 2012 single work biography ; Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography ; Unsuitable for Publication : Editing Queen Victoria Yvonne M. Ward , 2013 single work biography ; Affairs of the Art Katrina Strickland , 2013 single work biography
Books for Your Bedside Beverley Kingston , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , November vol. 24 no. 4 2013; (p. 10)

— Review of Ginger for Pluck : The Life and Times of Georgina King Roger Cross , Jennifer, M. T. Carter , 2013 single work biography ; The Edgeworth David Women Jennifer Horsfield , 2012 single work biography ; Eilean Giblin : A Feminist between the Wars Patricia Clarke , 2013 single work biography ; Unsuitable for Publication : Editing Queen Victoria Yvonne M. Ward , 2013 single work biography ; Affairs of the Art Katrina Strickland , 2013 single work biography
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