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Queen Victoria : a personal history / Christopher Hibbert.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA554 .H53 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-2008.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
- Victoria.
- Queens--Great Britain--Biography.
- Queens.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 557 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, photographs, portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Queen Victoria
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2000]
- Summary:
- In this new biography of Victoria, readers learn that not only was she the formidable and demanding Queen of popular imagination, but she was also often shy and vulnerable. Her 64-year reign saw thrones fall, empires crumble, new continents explored, and England's rise to global and industrial dominance. Hibbert reveals to readers the real Victoria in all her complexity. 16 halftones.
- Contents:
- Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers xviii
- Part 1 1819-1861
- 1 The Family 3
- 2 The Parents 9
- 3 The Child 17
- 4 Conroy 25
- 5 Progresses 30
- 6 Uncles 41
- 7 The Young Queen 53
- 8 Melbourne 60
- 9 Coronation 70
- 10 The Hastings Affair 76
- 11 'A Pleasant Life' 85
- 12 'A Headstrong Girl' 90
- 13 German Cousins 98
- 14 Prince Albert 107
- 15 The Bridegroom 111
- 16 Honeymoon 120
- 17 Robert Peel 130
- 18 The Prince and the Household 137
- 19 Royal Quarrels 148
- 20 Osborne 157
- 21 Travelling 165
- 22 Balmoral 175
- 23 The Prince of Wales 183
- 24 Palmerston 193
- 25 Chartists 199
- 26 'Pam is Out' 204
- 27 The Great Exhibition 210
- 28 'Scenes' 216
- 29 Crimean War 221
- 30 Napoleon III 230
- 31 The Princess Royal 238
- 32 Indian Mutiny 248
- 33 The German Grandson 256
- 34 Death of the Duchess 264
- 35 The Disappointing Heir 268
- 36 Death of the Prince 276
- Part 2 1861-1901
- 37 The Grieving Widow 285
- 38 Seances and Services 293
- 39 Princess Alexandra 298
- 40 The Recluse 307
- 41 Disraeli 314
- 42 John Brown 321
- 43 'The Royalty Question' 331
- 44 'The Princely Pauper' 338
- 45 Typhoid Fever 342
- 46 Maids-of-Honour 349
- 47 Secretaries and Ministers 353
- 48 Regina et Imperatrix 360
- 49 'The Half-mad Firebrand' 367
- 50 Golden Jubilee 379
- 51 Die Englanderin 384
- 52 The Daughters 391
- 53 The Sons 396
- 54 The Grandchildren 414
- 55 Would-be Assassins 420
- 56 Holidays Abroad 428
- 57 Death of Brown 440
- 58 The Munshi 446
- 59 Diamond Jubilee 455
- 60 Life at Court 461
- 61 Dinner Parties 468
- 63 Bookmen 481
- 64 Failing Health 484
- 65 Death 492
- 66 Funeral and Burial 495.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-534) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465067611
- OCLC:
- 45648943
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