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Victoria The Queen : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
- Title
- Victoria The Queen : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire / Julia Baird.
- Author
- Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands)
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xlvii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-650) and index.
- Contents
- 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."
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1848
- ISBN
- 9781400069880
- 1400069882
- LCCN
- 2015025297
- OCLC
- 2015025297
- Author
- Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands), author.
- Title
- Victoria The Queen : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire / Julia Baird.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [2016]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-650) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1848