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Victoria : the queen / Julia Baird.

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  • ISBN: 9781400069880
  • Physical Description: pages cm
  • Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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."
Subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Queens > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Bellwood-Antis Public Library B Vic (Text)
Memorial: In memory of Carol Yeager by Susan K. Strickler
310BEL00088580 Adult Biography Available -
Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity 92 VIC 2016 (Text) 31001101666643 Adult Biography Available -
Dimmick Main Library B VICTORIA (Text) 30444100271109 Balcony Available -


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