Author: Hector BolithoPublisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Reign of Queen Victoria
Author: Hector BolithoPublisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Victoria the Queen
Author: Julia Woodlands BairdPublisher:
ISBN: 1400069882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
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
The Beautiful Life and Illustrious Reign of Queen Victoria
Author: John RuskThe Reign of Queen Victoria
Author: Thomas Humphry WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Who Was Queen Victoria?
Author: Jim GigliottiPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698171888
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of 18. She married her first cousin, Albert, and had nine children who married into families across Europe. By the time she had earned the nickname “The Grandmother of Europe” and the title “Empress of India” it was indeed true that the sun never set on the British Empire. Publicly, she became a national icon, but privately, Who Was Queen Victoria?
The reign of queen Victoria. A reading book of history
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Queen Victoria
Author: John PlunkettPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199253920
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Queen Victoria's reign coincided with the arrival of the mass media.
The Public Life of Queen Victoria
Author: John McGilchristPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book presents exciting accounts of the life of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until she died in 1901. The writer entertains the readers with several unknown facts about the famous queen. Since her life cannot be separated from the events of that era, this work becomes a powerful portrayal of the history of Great Britain.
Author: 
Author: Greville