| Descript |
xlvii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 505-650) and index. |
| Contents |
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" -- 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 -- Albert: The man some called king -- Virago in love -- The bride: "I never, never spent such an evening" -- Only the husband, and 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 -- The widow of Windsor -- "There is no one to call me Victoria now" -- "The whole house seems like Pompeii." -- Resuscitating the widow of Windsor -- The queen's stallion -- The faery queen awakes -- 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." |
| Summary |
"...brings vividly to life the fascinating story of a woman who struggled with so many of the things we do today: balancing work and family, raising children, navigating marital strife, losing parents, combating anxiety and self-doubt, finding an identity, searching for meaning. This sweeping, page-turning biography gives us the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen-a Victoria for our times, a Victoria who endured." -- dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
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Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
1400069882 |
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9781400069880 |
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