'A grand work of noble conception': The Victoria Memorial and imperial London

Imperial cities

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 21-39

  Smith, Tori ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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4. Elisabeth Susan Darby, 'Statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: A Study in Commemorative and Portrait Statuary', Ph.D. dissertation, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1983
5. Victoria R. Smith, 'Constructing Victoria: The Representation of Queen Victoria in England, India and Canada, 1897-1914', Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 1998.
6. Selina (Lady) Southwark, Social and Political Reminiscences (London, Williams & Norgate, 1913), p. 283.
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9. Esher, letter to his son, 26 February 1901, Journals, p. 287.
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17. Port, Imperial London, p. 13
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23. Deborah Epstein Nord, 'The city as theater: from Georgian to early Victorian London', Victorian Studies, 31:2 (1988) 159-88 (quote from p. 165). While the planners of the Victoria Memorial looked to Paris for inspiration, the redesigners of Paris had emulated the development of Regent Street.
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29. Smith, 'Constructing Victoria'
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36. Meeting of the General Committee, 12 February 1903, Queen Victoria Memorial Minute Book, Atkinson Library, Southport, Lancashire.
37. Port, Imperial London, passim.
38. Thomas R. Metcalf, An Imperial Vision (Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1989), pp. 177-80.
39. Queen Victoria Memorial Committee, Queen Victoria Memorial Report, 1901-11, p. 7.
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41. Esher to Lord Knollys, Journals, p. 302.
42. Darby and Darby, 'The nation's memorial', p. 1648.
43. Port, Imperial London, p. 250.