Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679605058
- ISBN: 0679605053
- ISBN: 9781400069880
- ISBN: 1400069882
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xlvii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1: Princess Victoria : "Poor little victory". The birth of "pocket Hercules" ; The death of a father ; The lonely, naughty princess ; An impossible, strange madness ; "Awful scenes in the house" -- Part 2: The teenage queen. Becoming queen: "I am very young" ; The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" ; Learning to rule ; A scandal in the palace -- Part 3: Albert : the man some called king. Virago in love ; The bride : "I never, never spent such an evening" ; Only the husband, not the master ; The palace intruders ; King to all intents : "like a vulture into his prey" ; Perfect, awful, spotless prosperity ; Annus mirabilis : the revolutionary year ; What Albert did : the Great Exhibition of 1851 ; The Crimea : 'this unsatisfactory war' ; Royal parents and the dragon of dissatisfaction -- Part 4: The widow of Windsor. "There is no one to call me Victoria now" ; "The whole house seems like Pompeii" ; Resuscitating the widow at Windsor ; The queen's stallion ; The faery queen awakes -- Part 5: Regina imperatrix. Enough to kill any man ; Two ironclads colliding : the queen and Mr. Gladstone ; The monarch in a bonnet ; The "poor Munshi" ; The diamond empire ; The end of the Victorian Age : "the streets were indeed a strange sight." |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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