The Boston Globe, July 9th, 1997
In the annals of boastful jingoism, the party was a pip. In England 100 years ago, a month was devoted to the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria. Her 60 years on the throne began with memories of anxiously close calls at Trafalagar and Waterloo, but in 1897 Britannia ruled the waves and wanted the world to know it. As the celebration continued, Rudyard Kipling later recalled, "at the back of my head there was an uneasiness . . . and a certain optimism that scared me." The world's best-known writer, at 31, made the British Empire stop at its giddy zenith to heed its prime propagandist. On July 1...
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