Victoria The Queen : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679605058 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1400069882
- ISBN: 9781400069880
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Physical Description:
xlvii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-650) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The race to the crown -- The birth of "pocket Hercules" -- The lonely, naughty princess -- An impossible, strange madness -- "Awful scenes in the house" -- Becoming queen: "I shall not fail" -- The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" -- Learning to rule -- A scandal in the palace -- 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' -- London boils over -- Royal parents: "everything passes so quickly!" -- "Who will call me Victoria now?" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow at Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- 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." |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | BIO VICTORIA Baird 2016 | 39851001334649 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
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