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Victorian Mourning: Sartorial Symbolism in George Eliot’s “Middlemarch”
Anabelle
The image that most readily comes to mind when we think of Queen Victoria is that of an elderly, white-haired woman dressed entirely in black, her white widow’s cap perched solemnly atop her head. Portrait of Queen Victoria by Bertha Müller after Heinrich von Angeli, 1900. Source: National Portrait Gallery, London. This enduring portrayal of… Read more