Format:
Book
Author:
Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands), author.
Title:
Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire / Julia Baird.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Random House, 2016.
Description:
xlvii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Summary:
Drawing on previously unpublished papers, Victoria: The Queen is a stunning new potrait of the real woman behind the myth - a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience.
Subjects:
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Genre:
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part 1: Princess Victoria : "Poor little victory". The birth of "pocket Hercules" ; The death of a father ; The lonely, naughty princess ; An impossible, strange madness ; "Awful scenes in the house" -- Part 2: The teenage queen. Becoming queen: "I am very young" ; The coronation: "a dream out of the Arabian nights" ; Learning to rule ; A scandal in the palace -- Part 3: Albert : the man some called king. 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' ; Royal parents and the dragon of dissatisfaction -- Part 4: The widow of Windsor. "There is no one to call me Victoria now" ; "The whole house seems like Pompeii" ; Resuscitating the widow at Windsor ; The queen's stallion ; The faery queen awakes -- Part 5: Regina imperatrix. 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."
LCCN:
2015025297
ISBN:
9781400069880 (hardcover)
1400069882 (hardcover)
Other Number:
912045445
System Availability:
25
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3471181
Call Number:
941.081092 B
Course Reserves:
0
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25