Read a Victorian diary or collection of letters

[Stina]

Oops, I missed this one that I didn't complete for #Victober. I will have to go back into the full challenge posts and update them.

The Victorian era was 1837-1901, and to properly qualify, the author or setting should be under Victorian rule. I'll see if I can get The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant back from whatever university library it lives in and finish what I started. But there are quite a few other options that sound interesting. Queen Victoria's own journals are now available online: https://www.royal.uk/queen-victorias-....

[Cheryl]

Query -- does this apply to Victorian era (time period) or Victorian England/Great Britiain/British Empire?
In particular, I notice that the time period encompasses the US Civil War and I once had (I think) a collection of letters related to this event. Don't think I do any more, but my shelves are double and triple stacked.

[Stina]

Cheryl wrote: "Query -- does this apply to Victorian era (time period) or Victorian England/Great Britiain/British Empire?
In particular, I notice that the time period encompasses the US Civil War and I once had ..."

The intent of the original Victober prompt was for it to be written by somebody from/in Great Britain, or at least the British Empire. I'm going to try to do that, but if you want to interpret it as the Victorian era in general, I'm not going to quibble. I almost tried to make a case for a Poe story for one of the other Victober prompts, so I have no room to talk.

[Mary]

I am going to stretch this one. The book is about the original publishing of Victoria's own letters. It is mostly about the two editors, but also a bit about Victoria's successor and how the three volumes eventually were published. The choices these three men made heavily influences what we THINK we know about Victoria, girl, woman, wife, mother, and queen. "Censoring Queen Victoria: How Two Gentlemen Edited a Queen and Created an Icon" by Yvonne M. Ward