Victoria : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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| Autore: |
Baird Julia
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| Titolo: |
Victoria : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
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| Pubblicazione: | Westminster : , : Random House Publishing Group, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (693 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 941.081092 B |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Victoria |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910151709903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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