The right to privacy: origins and influence of a nineteenth-century idea

Richardson Megan

The right to privacy: origins and influence of a nineteenth-century idea - New York: Cambridge University Press 2017. - xii,171p. - Cambridge intellectual property and information law, 40 .

A sense of Victorian probity and piety was a signal feature of the case of Prince Albert v Strange, coming twelve years after Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837, and a year after a series of troubling revolutions in Europe (see Evans, 2016, Chapter 3), forming the subject of many anxious comments in Queen Victoria's Journals. The case showed a hitherto little-known domestic side to the royal couple's life, namely their engagement in the rational amusement of etching-making centred around their family, and featuring most notably their children and favourite dogs

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Authorship - History
Copyright - History
Intellectual property - History
Privacy, Right of.
Authorship, Secrecy, Privacy
Creative Self-fashioning

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