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Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire Cover Image Book Book

Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire

Baird, Julia (Julia Woodlands) (author.).

Summary: The story of the passionate, sensuous Queen Victoria, lover of her husband Albert, mother of nine children, the woman who built an empire and found a new life after her husband's death. New research brings Victoria to vivid life in a sweeping, page-turning new biography.

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  • ISBN: 9781400069880
  • ISBN: 9780812982282 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    xlvii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, (some colour), genealogical table, maps, portraits (some colour) ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Victoria -- Queen of Great Britain -- 1819-1901
Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.

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Smithers Public Library ANF 941.081 BAI (Text) 35101000517438 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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Cast of Characters xiii
Maps
xxviii
Family Tree xxxvi
Introduction xxxix
Part 1 Princess Victoria: "Poor Little Victory"
Chapter 1 The Birth of "Pocket Hercules"
3(9)
Chapter 2 The Death of a Father
12(10)
Chapter 3 The Lonely, Naughty Princess
22(14)
Chapter 4 An Impossible, Strange Madness
36(10)
Chapter 5 "Awful Scenes in the House"
46(13)
Part 2 The Teenage Queen
Chapter 6 Becoming Queen: "I Am Very Young"
59(14)
Chapter 7 The Coronation: "A Dream out of The Arabian Nights"
73(11)
Chapter 8 Learning to Rule
84(12)
Chapter 9 A Scandal in the Palace
96(19)
Part 3 Albert: The Man Some Called King
Chapter 10 Virago in Love
115(22)
Chapter 11 The Bride: "I Never, Never Spent Such an Evening"
137(15)
Chapter 12 Only the Husband, and Not the Master
152(22)
Chapter 13 The Palace Intruders
174(22)
Chapter 14 King to All Intents: "Like a Vulture into His Prey"
196(16)
Chapter 15 Perfect, Awful, Spotless Prosperity
212(13)
Chapter 16 Annus Mirabilis: The Revolutionary Year
225(18)
Chapter 17 What Albert Did: The Great Exhibition of 1851
243(15)
Chapter 18 The Crimea: "This Unsatisfactory War"
258(21)
Chapter 19 Royal Parents and the Dragon of Dissatisfaction
279(26)
Part 4 The Widow of Windsor
Chapter 20 "There Is No One to Call Me Victoria Now"
305(16)
Chapter 21 "The Whole House Seems Like Pompeii"
321(15)
Chapter 22 Resuscitating the Widow of Windsor
336(15)
Chapter 23 The Queen's Stallion
351(20)
Chapter 24 The Faery Queen Awakes
371(18)
Part 5 Regina Imperatrix
Chapter 25 Enough to Kill Any Man
389(22)
Chapter 26 "Two Ironclads Colliding": The Queen and Mr. Gladstone
411(22)
Chapter 27 The Monarch in a Bonnet
433(18)
Chapter 28 The "Poor Munshi"
451(11)
Chapter 29 The Diamond Empire
462(22)
Chapter 30 The End of the Victorian Age: "The Streets Were Indeed a Strange Sight"
484(11)
Author's Note 495(6)
Acknowledgments 501(4)
Notes 505(120)
Bibliography 625(26)
Illustration Credits 651(4)
Index 655

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