Victoria
Victoria

Author: A. N. Wilson

Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 1782393447

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'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original woman who was at the very epicentre of Britain's changing place in the world: a solitary woman in an all-male world who understood politics and foreign policy much better than some of her ministers; a person possessed by demons, but demons which she was brave enough to conquer. Above all, I became aware, when considering her eccentric friendships and deep passions, of what a loveable person she was.' A. N. Wilson

Victoria the Queen
Victoria the Queen

Author: Julia Woodlands Baird

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 1400069882

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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

Helena
Helena

Author: S. Chomet

Publisher: Begell House Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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Princess Helena was the third of Queen Victoria's five daughters. Carl Ruland was Prince Consort's Germanborn librarian and sometime tutor to the Royal children. He left Windsor after three and a half years in the employment of the Royal Family. And Helena became Princess Christian (of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg) when she marred Prince Christian, an impoverished continental prince, in 1866.

Notorious Victoria
Notorious Victoria

Author: Mary Gabriel

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 1998-01-28

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1565128052

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“A remarkable biography . . . Well written and researched, this book warrants a spot on every serious American history student’s bookshelf.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She’s the woman Gloria Steinem called “the most controversial suffragist of them all.” So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead of her time—and perhaps ahead of our own. “One of the most controversial American women of the late nineteenth century springs to life in this study that leaves no stone unturned.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] deftly written biography . . . of a hell-raising visionary.” —Mirabella “A meaty slice of feminist history peppered with Victorian drama.” —Civilization

Victoria and Albert
Victoria and Albert

Author: Sarah (Duchess of York)

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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An insight into the private life of this royal couple, as reflected in the family home they created together.

Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria

Author: Hourly History

Publisher: Hourly History

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1537586009

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The Queen of Great Britain and Ireland for 63 years, the mother of nine children and grandmother to 42, Queen Victoria’s life was one of magnificent proportions. Victoria’s childhood was difficult and lonely but from the time she took the throne aged just eighteen she blossomed into a powerful woman, both frivolous and formidable. Inside you will read about... ✓ An Unsentimental Marriage ✓ Race to Produce an Heir ✓ Finally an Adult and Finally a Queen ✓ V&A ✓ Die Shattenseite ✓ The Hungry Forties and Albert’s Great Exhibition ✓ The Widow at Windsor And much more! In her later years, Victoria struggled to find balance between her wish to live a very private life as a widow and her duty to live the very public life of a Queen and later Empress. The world Victoria was born into was a very different world to that which she left behind and her life story is an incredible journey from infant heir to matriarchal Queen and Empress.