Mods - since this is a printed work then Cafe Society, ok?
I know where I’ll be surfing and reading for the next few months. 40,000 pages :eek: - I’ll be surfing & reading there for a year easy.
This is such an historical treasure. Imagine a first hand look at the Brist Monarchy at the very height of it’s colonial empire. A time when the sun never set on the British Empire.
What a wonderful gift to the world from Queen Elisabeth. I can’t wait to start reading.
Very interesting. I knew she kept a diary, but I didn’t know how much of her papers survived. Also I thought she wrote in German. I wonder if there’s anything in them about Mr Brown.
I’ve started following the twitter account. Daily tweets from Queen Victoria. I love it. Using her diaries for tweets. Clever idea.
Not everything is transcribed yet. All the handwritten pages are scanned and are available on the web site. I gather they will continue transcribing and posting through the Jubilee.
It’s very unlikely that there’s anything in there about John Brown. After she died, her daughter Beatrice went and edited out anything she felt was inappropriate. The rest of the family was furious over it.
I assumed anything salacious or controversial would have been purged from the diaries by Victoria herself or by the original book publishers (at the family’s request).
Weren’t the original publishing only for the Royals? I can’t imagine commoners being offered these books prior to 1930 or maybe not until the 1950’s. The Royals love their privacy.
The thread title was right above one that had the word “movie” in it, and I kid you not, somehow I read this thread’s title as “Queen Victoria’s ovaries are now online!”
sigh I knew someone would be pedantic and ignore the joke. I went with the assumption that she didn’t officially have a last name, but needed to keep the rhythm of the joke.
Perhaps I’m not culturally attuned but where was the joke? Is it a current pop-culture reference? If so, I have no kids and am 57, so I’m out of touch. Please don’t assume someone is ignoring something or trying to be pedantic.
Fair enough. I tried to make it clear, even if you didn’t recognise it, that it was a pop culture reference. Anyway, it’s not recent, but reasonably widely known.
40,000 pages :eek: - I’ll be surfing & reading there for a year easy.
I love it. Using her diaries for tweets. Clever idea.