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Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445612259 |
This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history
Author | : Fred Vermorel |
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Release | : 2014 |
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ISBN | : 9780992832032 |
Author | : Sir Sidney Lee |
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Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Barrie Charles |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445612674 |
An account of the eight assassination attempts on the life of Queen Victoria.
Author | : Terry Deary |
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Release | : 1996 |
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ISBN | : 9780749622107 |
Author | : Peter Underwood |
Publisher | : Peter Underwood |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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There have been many books about Queen Victoria but there has never been one that has explored her 'other world' - the world of the strange and unusual, the world of death and her fascination for it, and the world of the unseen and the paranormal that she could never resist. During his research Peter Underwood gained the distinct impression that there was something of a conspiracy of silence around her interest in the paranormal. however, there is overwhelming evidence that as a fatherless and bewildered princess, as a quickly matured queen, and then as a widowed and often lonely woman, Victoria showed a considerable interest in death and its draperies. This book covers Victoria's youthful encounters with the occult; her visits to haunted properties, her friends and acquaintances with similar interests and experiences; her alleged involvement with Robert Lees, the medium; her undoubted interest in the Jack-the-Ripper murders; her obsession with omens and superstitions and her fascination with death. Not long before his death the Prince Consort told the Queen, 'We don't know in what state we shall meet again, but that we shall recognise each other and be together in eternity I am perfectly certain'. Through forty years of widowhood Queen Victoria believed utterly that this would be so.
Author | : Sarah A. Southall Tooley |
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Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1901 |
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Author | : Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall |
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Adrienne Munich |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231104814 |
An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.
Author | : Jan Bondeson |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812235760 |
A century before Jack the Ripper there was the London Monster, whose knife attacks on women caused unprecedented alarm, terror, and uproar. Through chance combined with vigilante effort, a young Welshman, Rhynwick Williams, was arrested as the Monster and committed to prison after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey. However, doubts about Williams' guilt persisted, and some writers asserted that there never was a Monster at all. Over 200 years later, Bondeson (author of A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities and The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History) unearthed new clues to this fascinating case, which lies somewhere between fact and urban legend. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR