Gossip
Gossip

Author: John Ashton

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3734075386

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Reproduction of the original: Gossip by John Ashton

Royal Representations
Royal Representations

Author: Margaret Homans

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0226351157

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Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. In Royal Representations, Margaret Homans investigates the meanings Victoria held for her times, Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, and the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt. Arguing that being, seeming, and appearing were crucial to Victoria's "rule," Homans explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources. Along the way she shows how Victoria provided a deeply equivocal model for women's powers in and out of marriage, how Victoria's dramatic public withdrawal after Albert's death helped to ease the monarchy's transition to an entirely symbolic role, and how Victoria's literary self-representations influenced debates over political self-representation. Homans considers versions of Victoria in the work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, John Ruskin, Margaret Oliphant, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

Queen Victoria's Stalker
Queen Victoria's Stalker

Author: Jan Bondeson

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2010-09-15

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1445612259

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This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history

Enter Rumour
Enter Rumour

Author: Robert Bernard

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2012-01-19

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0571287859

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The common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line. Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them emanating from 'what the Victorians might have called the higher orders of society.' Martin recounts the sorry tale of Lady Flora Hastings, victim of Court gossip; Lord Eglinton, who tried and failed to revive the medieval tournament; the strange case of the St Cross Hospital Charity; and George Hudson, 'Railway King', whose rise and fall remains a story for our times. Martin examines sources expertly and further explores how three of these scandals were transformed into fiction - by none less than Dickens, Disraeli and Trollope.

Her Little Majesty
Her Little Majesty

Author: Carolly Erickson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1501176501

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An insightful and fascinating portrait of Queen Victoria, from her childhood through her adult life, detailing her personal life and relationships with friends, family, and the public. A “vivid” (Kirkus Reviews) and multilayered biography of Queen Victoria chronicling the life of the longest-reigning British monarch who ruled for sixty-four years, offering an intimate portrait of a woman who after losing her beloved husband went on to fulfill her duties as mother, grandmother, and queen of England.

Conversation
Conversation

Author: Mary Greer Conklin

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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"Conversation" by Mary Greer Conklin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.