{"id":2121,"date":"2014-11-11T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2121"},"modified":"2014-11-20T06:32:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T06:32:28","slug":"victorian-romanticism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2121","title":{"rendered":"Victorian romanticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hands-Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2152 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hands-Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-copy-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"hands Victoria_and_her_cousin,_1852 copy\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hands-Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-copy-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hands-Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-copy-1024x604.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hands-Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-copy.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From her accession to the throne in 1837 \u00a0until the death of her beloved Albert in 1861, \u00a0the young Queen Victoria was <em>the<\/em> model of romantic love, marriage, and motherhood in the mid-ninteenth century western world. Her example resonated especially with elite young women in the antebellum South. Beginning with her 1840 white satin wedding dress and orange-blossom hair-wreath, her choices in dress, jewelry, and hair styles caught on quickly <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">in American fashion\u00a0through magazines like<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #1da4ab;\"><a style=\"color: #1da4ab;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godey's_Lady's_Book\">Godey&#8217;s Lady&#8217;s Book<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Her court&#8217;s revival of <span style=\"color: #24b3c9;\"><span style=\"color: #1da4ab;\"><a style=\"color: #1da4ab;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.teamsmedieval.org\/ofc\/SP09\/F2010Victorian.html\">medievalism<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0exemplified in fancy dress balls, hunts and games &#8212;\u00a0<\/span><\/span>translated, in the Old South, into courtly displays at chivalric tournaments. Eliza Harwood and Tristrim Skinner regularly attended such summer events at Fauquier Springs, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2149\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2149\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2149 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria_and_her_cousin,_1852\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Victoria_and_her_cousin_1852-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queen Victoria and her first cousin, Victoria, the Duchess of Nemours, 1852, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Royal Collection, Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From her accession to the throne in 1837 \u00a0until the death of her beloved Albert in 1861, \u00a0the young Queen Victoria was the model of romantic love, marriage, and motherhood in the mid-ninteenth century western world. 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