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Palace scenes : more plays of Queen Victoria / by Laurence Housman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901--Drama.
- Victoria.
- Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Speiser, Maurice J. (Maurice Joseph), b. 1880 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Speiser, Mrs. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- City of Oxford : Printed in Great Britain at The Alden Press.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, [1937]
- Contents:
- Preface
- The bed-chamber plot
- The court circle
- The first-born
- Forward, but not too fast
- The family portrait
- The anniversary
- Stable government
- A star from the east
- 'Please to look pleasant'
- Royal table manners
- The primrose path
- Epilogue: Ashes to ashes.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "First published 1937."
- "Like all that have gone before, every one of these scenes has in it a germ of history ..."--Preface.
- OCLC:
- 14012972
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