Victoria

Victoria
Author: Catherine Reef
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0544716140

A captivating biography about Queen Victoria (1819-1901), one of England's most fascinating royals. Her long reign was filled with drama, death, intrigue, and passion, and took place during a time of great transformation, an era that bears her name--the Victorian period. Full color. 8 x 10.

Royal Mourning and Regency Culture

Royal Mourning and Regency Culture
Author: S. Behrendt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1997-09-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0230376320

This book examines the widespread response in British artistic media to the death in childbirth in 1817 of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince Regent and heiress to the throne, showing how both in print materials like poetry and sermons and extra-literary artifacts like visual art, ceramics, metalwork, and textiles her life and death were invested with the qualities of myth even as her memorialists appropriated her experiences in the process of producing consumer commodities for an emerging mass audience.

Making Stars

Making Stars
Author: Nora Nachumi
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1644532646

Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.