Queen Victoria / Walter L. Arnstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnstein, Walter L.

Contributor:

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Victoria.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.

Great Britain.

History.

Queens--Great Britain--Biography.

Queens.

Genre:

Biographies.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

In this engaging study, Walter L. Arnstein explores both the private life and the public role of the young princess who inherited Britain's throne as a teenager and who became the octogenarian symbolic head of the largest empire in the history of the world. Arnstein incorporates the findings of past studies and recent research (including articles of his own based on previously unpublished letters and journals) to shed light on often-neglected aspects of Victoria's life and reign: her concern with gender roles, religion, politics, and Ireland; as well as her involvement with both the controversial domestic issues and the great international conflicts of the era. Wherever the historical evidence allows, Arnstein enables the monarch to speak in her own words, demonstrating that Victoria was not only the queen who became an adjective, but also a highly quotable, multi-dimensional human being. Concise, authoritative and attractively illustrated, Queen Victoria provides the economic, social, cultural and political background knowledge to make the life of this fascinating monarch intelligible even to readers unfamiliar with her now distant world.

Contents:

2 The Cloistered Princess 15

3 The Royal Teenager 31

4 The Model of Domesticity 49

5 The Reigning Partner 67

6 Britain's Champion 87

7 The Reclusive Widow 109

8 The Guardian of the Constitution 135

9 The Imperial Matriarch 165

10 The Paradoxical Monarch 195

Appendix 1 Queen Victoria's Maternal Relations 207

Appendix 2 Queen Victoria's Paternal Relations 208

Appendix 3 Queen Victoria as 'Grandmother of Europe' 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

0333638069

0333638077

OCLC:

51855069