Book Description
A social history of Victorian England, focusing on life in the upper echelons of society during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
Author : Virginia Schomp
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1608703517
A social history of Victorian England, focusing on life in the upper echelons of society during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
Author : Virginia Schomp
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2011-01-30
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 9781608700288
This series of books explores what is perhaps the most dynamic era in the history of England.
Author : Greg King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 047004439X
Features the court of Britain's longest-reigning monarch Royalty and the Victorian era, with coverage of the people, pageantry, and power of Queen Victoria's court. Beginning with the Queen's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, this book describes her long reign. It paints a portrait of a unique ruler at the height of empire.
Author : Daisy Goodwin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1250175313
The official companion to the second season of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria by award-winning creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin. Airing in the Downton Abbey slot on PBS/Masterpiece last January, Victoria captivated millions of viewers, eclipsing Downton's first-season viewership and leaving its audience eager for the series's next season, which will focus on Victoria and Albert's passionate and tempestuous marriage. This official tie-in to the show, by creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show, featuring never-before-seen interviews, photos, diary entries, profiles on all major characters, and sumptuous detail on the costumes and props that bring Victoria and Albert's world to vivid life. Victoria and Albert follows this extraordinary relationship between two very different people—she impulsive, emotional, capricious; he cautious, self-controlled, and logical—whose devotion to each other was unparalleled in royal history. Taking fans deeper into the world of Victoria than ever before, Victoria and Albert: A Royal Love Affair is the ultimate gift for devotees of the show.
Author : Kate Hubbard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0062269933
During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician. Drawing on their letters and diaries—many hitherto unpublished—Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court, with all its frustrations and absurdities, as well as the Queen herself, sitting squarely at its center. Seen through the eyes of her household as she traveled among Windsor, Osborne, and Balmoral, and to the French and Belgian courts, Victoria emerges as more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish, more comical, than the austere figure depicted in her famous portraits. We see a woman who was prone to fits of giggles, who wept easily and often, who gobbled her food and shrank from confrontation but insisted on controlling the lives of those around her. We witness her extraordinary and debilitating grief at the death of her husband, Albert, and her sympathy toward the tragedies that afflicted her household. Witty, astute, and moving, Serving Victoria is a perfect foil to the pomp and circumstance—and prudery and conservatism—associated with Victoria's reign, and gives an unforgettable glimpse of what it meant to serve the Queen.
Author : Louis Auchincloss
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Part sociology, part royal gossip, this glossy, readable book follows Victoria from her submissive childhood through her domineering reign. Auchincloss - a Wall Street lawyer and novelist (The Winthrop Covenant) - paints the Queen as less pompous than have previous biographers. But he is really more concerned with the courtly higher-ups around her and provides a non-Victorian, savvy lowdown. With its plentiful illustrations, this is a fascinating introduction to the era."--Amazon.com.
Author :
Publisher : London : G. Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Fitzgerald Molloy
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104521967
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Greg King
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620458608
Power, pageantry, and pride Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, reigning over subjects on every continent, and exercising undisputed mastery of the oceans in between. She was the "Grandmother of Europe," with descendants occupying the thrones of half a dozen nations, and more to come. The very era in which she lived already bore her name. In June 1897, her proud and prosperous nation marked her sixtieth year on the throne of England with the most lavish display of pomp, circumstance, wealth, and affection in its history. Twilight of Splendor presents a breathtaking portrait of a sovereign and her empire at the height of their global power. Focusing on the spectacle of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, it combines a thrilling account of that massive celebration with an intimate exploration of Victoria's world--her splendid palaces and possessions, the grand banquets and balls she hosted, her immense wealth, the politicians and courtiers who did her bidding, her confidence and assertiveness as a ruler, her surprising personal humility, and her perpetual state of mourning for her beloved husband, Prince Albert. Based on hundreds of published and unpublished sources from the period, including Queen Victoria's private correspondence and personal journals, Twilight of Splendor is must reading for Anglophiles, Victorian-history buffs, and anyone interested in the golden age of monarchy. * The first book to portray the queen and her court in the last years of her reign * Contrasts the queen's private and public images in her efforts to solidify the monarchy * Exposes the queen's difficult relations with her children * Explores the queen's relationship with her extended European royal relatives * Draws together for the first time hundreds of disparate sources * Includes a number of rare photographs complementing the text
Author : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780750914819
This title looks at Queen Victoria's active life as shown by the collection of personal memorabilia. The author has taken extracts from Victoria's diaries to illustrate the collection, and the title aims to bring warmth and life to our understanding of the Widow of Windsor.