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Against Gladstonian reforms she raged as follows in a letter to Lord Granville, Gladstone's Foreign Secretary: "The Queen herself can never have any confidence in the men who encourage reform for the sake of alteration and pulling down what exists. . . . A democratic monarchy she will not consent to belong to . . . Others must be found if that...
Though not even Queen Victoria could concoct a more terrifying threat than this-that she might abdicate-the new series of letters is starred with innumerable dynamic and forceful passages, many urging that the most truculently repressive measures be taken against natives in India, Africa, Egypt or Ireland, where "the more one does for the Irish the more unruly and ungrateful they seem...
Miss Bell. Very natural and to be expected is the discovery that Miss Bell, who labored so long amid aboriginal peoples, did not advocate their ruthless repression,* as did the Queen. For one thing, Gertrude Bell's whole life was led in perfect intellectual freedom and with few curbs upon her remarkable physique. After taking a brilliant First at Oxford she was for a time coquette enough to refuse to ride alone, one evening, with a young man in a hansom cab; but not long thereafter her loves became Persia and Palestine and the wild crags of the Swiss...
...LETTERS OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 1879-1885 (Second Series-Vol. 3)-Edited by George Earle Buckle-Longmans, Green...
Other laughing matters: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE QUEEN'S HUSBAND, THE BACHELOR FATHER...