Introduction

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THE VICTORIAN ERA came to an end at half past six on 22 January 1901 at Osborne House, when, surrounded by her family, Queen Victoria finally passed away. Eighty-one years old, she had reigned for sixty-four years. Not long after she came to the throne in 1837 her contemporaries began to describe themselves as ‘Victorians’, usually with a celebratory or bombastic flourish. In one of the earliest usages of the term the Congregationalist minister Edwin Paxton Hood proclaimed that the ‘Victorian Commonwealth is the most wonderful picture on the face of the earth’. 1

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