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Book The Girlhood of Queen Victoria

Download or read book The Girlhood of Queen Victoria written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Girlhood of Queen Victoria

Download or read book The Girlhood of Queen Victoria written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Queen Victoria  1879 1885

Download or read book The Letters of Queen Victoria 1879 1885 written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Queen Victoria

Download or read book The Letters of Queen Victoria written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Queen Victoria  1862 1869

Download or read book The Letters of Queen Victoria 1862 1869 written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Queen Victoria  1870 1878

Download or read book The Letters of Queen Victoria 1870 1878 written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters of Queen Victoria

Download or read book The Letters of Queen Victoria written by Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly List of New Books

Download or read book Quarterly List of New Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly List of New Books

Download or read book Quarterly List of New Books written by Public Library of Brookline and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book We Two

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  • Author : Gillian Gill
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2009-11-30
  • ISBN : 0345520017
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book We Two written by Gillian Gill and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria’s secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.” —USA Today It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century—and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. “Albert is beautiful!” Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the years—each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert’s early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbic—and informed by revealing excerpts from the pair’s journals and letters—We Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend.

Book Queen Victoria

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  • Author : Helen Rappaport
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2003-05-05
  • ISBN : 157607580X
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Queen Victoria written by Helen Rappaport and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-05-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource covers the life, times, and relationships of Queen Victoria, providing information about her children, her personal interests, the historic times in which she ruled, and the leaders she influenced. In this fascinating guide to every aspect of Queen Victoria's life, author Helen Rappaport analyzes the queen's personality, celebrates her achievements, and details the shortcomings of her empire, both in Britain, with its continuing divide between rich and poor, and overseas, where Britain's great empire was won by repression and exploitation. A–Z entries—including topics barely touched in standard biographies—cover things like the various assassination attempts on her life, her interest in dancing and Jack the Ripper's murders, and how her husband Prince Albert introduced the celebration of Christmas to England. Queen Victoria also describes individuals such as her companion Lady Jane Churchill, her physician Sir James Clark, and politicians such as William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli; events like the Irish potato famine; inventions like steam power; and issues such as missionary activity and prostitution. It also includes bibliographies both for each entry and overall, and a chronology.

Book Crown   Sceptre

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  • Author : Tracy Borman
  • Publisher : Grove Atlantic
  • Release : 2022-02-22
  • ISBN : 0802159117
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Crown Sceptre written by Tracy Borman and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the British monarchy that’s “a superb synthesis of historical analysis, politics, and top-notch royal gossip” (Kirkus Reviews). Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England’s various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain’s throne. “Shining examples of royal power and majesty alongside a rogue’s gallery of weak, lazy, or evil monarchs,” as Tracy Borman describes them in her sparkling chronicle, Crown & Sceptre. Ironically, during very few of these 955 years has the throne’s occupant been unambiguously English—whether Norman French, the Welsh-born Tudors, the Scottish Stuarts, and the Hanoverians and their German successors to the present day. Acknowledging the intrinsic fascination with British royalty, Borman lifts the veil to reveal the remarkable characters and personalities who have ruled and, since the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, more ceremonially reigned. It is a crucial distinction explaining the staying power of the monarchy as the royal family has evolved and adapted to the needs and opinions of its people, avoiding the storms of rebellion that brought many of Europe’s royals to an abrupt end. Richard II; Henry VIII; Elizabeth I; George III; Victoria; Elizabeth II: their names evoke eras and the dramatic events Borman recounts. She is equally attuned to the fabric of monarchy: royal palaces; the way monarchs have been portrayed in art, on coins, in the media; the ceremony and pageantry surrounding the crown. Elizabeth II is already one of the longest reigning monarchs in history. Crown & Sceptre is a fitting tribute to her remarkable longevity and that of the magnificent institution she represents. “Crown & Sceptre brings us in short, vivid chapters from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth herself, much of it constituting a dark record of bumping off adversaries, rivals and spouses, confiscating vast estates and military invasions…. [A] lucid, character-rich book.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Borman’s deep understanding of English royalty shines.” —Chris Schluep, Amazon Editors’ Picks, The Best History Books of February 2022

Book Holland House and Portugal  17931840

Download or read book Holland House and Portugal 17931840 written by Jose Baptista de Sousa and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note.

Book The Letters of Rudyard Kipling  1911 19

Download or read book The Letters of Rudyard Kipling 1911 19 written by Rudyard Kipling and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume of Rudyard Kipling's letters, now collected and edited for the first time, continues the story of his life from the end of the Edwardian era through the Great War, a crisis in Kipling's life as well as in that of the world. The years before the war saw the publication of Rewards and Fairies and Songs from Books. In politics, the great issue was Irish home rule and the fate of Ulster. At the outbreak of the war Kipling devoted himself to the struggle. He wrote patriotic verse, made recruiting speeches, and traveled as a correspondent to the French and Italian fronts. He published no new fiction, only what he wrote as correspondent and propagandist: France at War, The Fringes of the Fleet, and The Eyes of Asia. In 1915 his only son, John, was killed in the Battle of Loos; at the same time Kipling began to suffer from the undiagnosed ulcer that would torment him for the rest of his life. His last volume of poems, The Years Between, published in 1919, embodies the suffering and bitterness of these years.

Book My Dearest  Dearest Albert

Download or read book My Dearest Dearest Albert written by Karen Dolby and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this book shows the very human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty who gave her name to the age of improvement.

Book Country Life

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 964 pages

Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Country Life Illustrated

Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: