Author: Mrs OliphantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Queen Victoria, a Personal Sketch
Author: Mrs OliphantQueen Victoria
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Queen Victoria, a personal sketch
Author: Margaret Oliphant OliphantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Victoria
Author: Richard T LancefieldPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019893593
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book provides an intimate look into the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled England for over sixty years, from 1837 to 1901. Through a series of sketches, the author portrays the queen's personality, her relationships with family and friends, and her impact on British society. The book is a compelling tribute to one of the most influential monarchs of the modern era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Queen Victoria's Sketchbook
Author: Marina WarnerPublisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Presents paintings and sketches by the Queen, along with a narrative text drawn in part from her journals.
Queen Victoria
Author: Helen RappaportPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 157607580X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Queen Victoria's Secrets
Author: Adrienne MunichPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
An unconventional figure in an age that excluded women from government, Victoria was accorded prominence unavailable to any male monarch. Yet as Adrienne Munich argues in this fascinating work, the originality of the solid, dour icon that was Victoria lay, paradoxically, in her very ordinariness. The first book to fully investigate the influence of this icon of British history, Queen Victoria's Secrets demonstrates the firm grasp the queen held on the cultural imagination of her country, exploring how Victoria created and maintained her royal authority. Gracefully weaving together feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of the queen in the minds of her people. How did Victoria convincingly maintain her power for forty years after Prince Albert's death, never giving up her identity as a grieving widow? How did Victorian society's reverential treatment of their queen conflate with the monarch's plain, middle class public image? These are some of the secrets Munich examines in her richly detailed work. In demonstrating the subtle but powerful ways in which Victoria performed significant cultural work, Queen Victoria's Secrets goes against the grain of Victoria scholarship, which has tended to overlook the queen's political and cultural centrality. This stylish, accessible portrait will be of great interest to those who are fascinated by the myth-making and secrets of the Victorian age.
The Personal Life of Queen Victoria
Author: Sarah A. Southall TooleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Contemporary Biography
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Queen Victoria
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description