Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire / Julia Baird.
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Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands) (författare)
- ISBN 9781400069880
- Publicerad: New York : Random House, 2016
- Engelska 696 s.
Innehållsförteckning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- 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.".
Ämnesord
- Drottningar (sao)
- Drottningar -- 1800-talet -- sekelskiftet 1900 -- biografi (kao)
- Queens -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- turn of the century 1900 -- biography (kao//eng)
- Queens (lcsh)
- Storbritannien (sao)
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901. (LCSH)
Genre
- Biografier (saogf)
Personnamn
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
- Viktoria, drottning av Storbritannien, 1819-1901
Klassifikation
- DA554 (LCC)
- 941.081092 (DDC)
- Ke (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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