Victoria The Queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire, Julia Baird

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Victoria The Queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire, Julia Baird

Title remainder

an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire

Statement of responsibility

Julia Baird

Instantiates

• Victoria The Queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire

Publication

• New York, Random House, 2016

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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."

Control code

18673484

Edition

First edition.

Extent

xlvii, 696 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9781400069880

Lccn

2015025297

Other physical details

illustrations (some color), maps

Record ID

.b14803380