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LEADER: 02115cam a22003258i 4500
001 2015025297
003 DLC
005 20150917081523.0
008 150625s2016 nyu b 001 0beng
010 $a 2015025297
020 $a9781400069880
020 $z9780679605058 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aDA554$b.B18 2016
082 00 $a941.081092$aB$223
100 1 $aBaird, Julia$q(Julia Woodlands)
245 10 $aVictoria :$bthe queen : the woman who shaped the modern world /$cJulia Baird.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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."
600 00 $aVictoria,$cQueen of Great Britain,$d1819-1901.
650 0 $aQueens$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yVictoria, 1837-1901.