{"id":32452,"date":"2012-05-30T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=32452"},"modified":"2012-05-31T13:04:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T17:04:11","slug":"queen-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/30\/queen-of-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen of the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/victoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/victoria-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"victoria\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/victoria-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/victoria.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>Queen Elizabeth has put <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queenvictoriasjournals.org\/home.do\">Queen Victoria\u2019s complete journals<\/a> online. (Well, in collaboration with Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest.) The 141 journals, sourced from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royal.gov.uk\/The%20Royal%20Collection%20and%20other%20collections\/TheRoyalArchives\/TheRoyalArchives.aspx\">Royal Archives<\/a>, chronicle Victoria\u2019s life from the age of thirteen to eighty-one. The monarch was a faithful and articulate correspondent, and while the content is hardly what one might term <em>juicy<\/em>, there are certainly plenty of personal revelations, domestic details, and opportunities for analysis. (If you can read her handwriting, that is\u2014not every journal is transcribed.)<\/p>\n<p>On this day in 1837, the soon-to-be queen recorded, <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wrote a letter to dear Uncle Leopold. Walked. Wrote my journal. Dressed (as though I was going to an evening party.) &#8230; Saw Dr. Clark. Played on the piano. Wrote. At 7 to 4 we dined.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth has put Queen Victoria\u2019s complete journals online. (Well, in collaboration with Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest.) The 141 journals, sourced from the Royal Archives, chronicle Victoria\u2019s life from the age of thirteen to eighty-one. The monarch was a faithful and articulate correspondent, and while the content is hardly what one might term juicy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7554],"tags":[7682,5706,7681,7680,7683],"class_list":["post-32452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-2","tag-diaries","tag-journals","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queen-victoria","tag-web"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Queen of the Web by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 30, 2012 \u2013 Queen Elizabeth has put Queen Victoria\u2019s complete journals online. (Well, in collaboration with Oxford\u2019s Bodleian Libraries and ProQuest.) 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