She Was the Most Powerful Woman in the World, but She Didn't Think Women Should Be Allowed to Vote?

[Matthew Dennison is the author of many books including “The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter,” and the recently published, “Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions.”


Queen Victoria, current thinking suggests, is as susceptible to multiple interpretations as the Bible. In her lifetime Britain’s longest-serving monarch wrote an estimated 60 million words, including, on occasion, 2,500 words a day in the Journal she kept throughout her adult life. Candor and vehemence are invariably the keynotes of this voluminous output, underscored by a deep-seated conviction that her opinion merited attention. In letters, memoranda and her diary she expressed herself on subjects as wide-ranging as women’s education, race relations, breastfeeding (a particular bugbear) and the honesty of the Highland tenantry she encountered on her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire. Inevitably, such extensive primary sources appear to offer historians clues about the woman herself.
And what a wealth of clues.


http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156715

its a shame that her daughter, Princess Beatrice did such a hatchet job on her letters and diaries.

also QV could not understand or accept/believe that some women were lesbians which is why it was never a criminal matter as opposed to homosexuality.