Salina Art Center

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The Young Victoria

When Americans today hear “Queen Victoria,” we’re likely to recall our impressions of the “Victorian Age” and link the British monarch to notions of class consciousness, social intolerance, sexual repression, and suffocating corsets. Film lovers might conjure an image of Dame Judi Dench as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown, dressed in black and looking depressed and sour-faced and judgmental. Many historians would assert that Queen Victoria was not the stone-hearted moral crusader of the…