Queen Victoria
Author | : Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780351187384 |
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Author | : Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780351187384 |
Author | : Cecil Woodham Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9787250009533 |
Author | : Cecil Woodham Smith |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cecil Woodham-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780140177169 |
Author | : Hourly History |
Publisher | : Hourly History |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2016-09-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1537586009 |
The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria’s life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria’s childhood was difficult and lonely but from the time she took the throne aged just eighteen she blossomed into a powerful woman, both frivolous and formidable. Inside you will read about... ✓ An Unsentimental Marriage ✓ Race to Produce an Heir ✓ Finally an Adult and Finally a Queen ✓ V&A ✓ Die Shattenseite ✓ The Hungry Forties and Albert’s Great Exhibition ✓ The Widow at Windsor And much more! In her later years, Victoria struggled to find balance between her wish to live a very private life as a widow and her duty to live the very public life of a Queen and later Empress. The world Victoria was born into was a very different world to that which she left behind and her life story is an incredible journey from infant heir to matriarchal Queen and Empress.
Author | : Lawrence Stone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1989-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521364843 |
Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these essays owe much to his influence. There are also four appreciations by friends and colleagues from Oxford and Princeton and a little-known autobiographical piece by Lawrence Stone himself.
Author | : Julia Woodlands Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 770 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400069882 |
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
Author | : Helen Rappaport |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2003-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 157607580X |
This resource covers the life, times, and relationships of Queen Victoria, providing information about her children, her personal interests, the historic times in which she ruled, and the leaders she influenced. In this fascinating guide to every aspect of Queen Victoria's life, author Helen Rappaport analyzes the queen's personality, celebrates her achievements, and details the shortcomings of her empire, both in Britain, with its continuing divide between rich and poor, and overseas, where Britain's great empire was won by repression and exploitation. A–Z entries—including topics barely touched in standard biographies—cover things like the various assassination attempts on her life, her interest in dancing and Jack the Ripper's murders, and how her husband Prince Albert introduced the celebration of Christmas to England. Queen Victoria also describes individuals such as her companion Lady Jane Churchill, her physician Sir James Clark, and politicians such as William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli; events like the Irish potato famine; inventions like steam power; and issues such as missionary activity and prostitution. It also includes bibliographies both for each entry and overall, and a chronology.
Author | : Paula Bartley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317281977 |
Paula Bartley’s Queen Victoria examines Victorian Britain from the perspective of the Queen. Victoria’s personal and political actions are discussed in relation to contemporary shifts in Britain’s society, politics and culture, examining to what extent they did – or did not – influence events throughout her reign. Drawing from contemporary sources, including Queen Victoria’s own diaries, as well as the most recent scholarship, the book contextualises Victoria historically by placing her in the centre of an unparalleled period of innovation and reform, in which the social and political landscape of Britain, and its growing empire, was transformed. Balancing Victoria’s private and public roles, it will examine the cultural paradox of the Queen’s rule in relation to the changing role of women: she was a devoted wife, prolific mother and obsessive widow, who was also Queen of a large Empire and Empress of India. Marrying cultural history, gender history and other histories ‘from below’ with high politics, war and diplomacy, this is a concise and accessible introduction to Queen Victoria’s life for students of Victorian Britain and the British Empire.