Queen victoria by elizabeth longford overdrive rakuten. Queen victorias private diaries made available online. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Queen victoria s book of spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenthcentury settings, characters, and themes. Just like wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog.
It was a period of industrial, cultural, political. This book highlights the lows of being a daughter of queen victoria and how. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 444 pages and is available in hardcover format. Gentleman was probably her most successful work and, incidentally, made into a bbc television series in the 1970s. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Queen victoria is the longestreigning monarch in british history. Known as the victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. On november 6, 1817, died the princess charlotte, only child of the prince regent, and heir to the crown of england. Excerpts from the teenage diaries of queen victoria, spanning from 1832, when victoria was yearsold, to 1840, the same year that she married her cousin prince albert of.
As the sub title says this is a personal history of our up to now longest reigning monarch. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Christopher hibbert is a very readable writer and i recommend this book as an introduction to victoria, as a woman, wife, mother and queen. This work was followed in the same style by queen victoria 1921. Police files on queen victorias suffragette goddaughter.
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Queen victorias complete diaries released online the. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty. Queen victoria s book of spells is a beautiful exploration of gaslamp fiction, steampunk,and magic in the 1800s. Queen victoria was queen of the united kingdom of great britain and ireland from 1837 to 1901 the secondlongest reign of any british monarch. Victoria aveyard new york times bestselling author of. Queen victoria books list of books by author queen victoria.
On 1 may 1876, she adopted the additional title of empress of india. Queen victoria s family is pretty extensive which means there are so many books to choose from. Queen victoria story of her life and reign, 18191901 by. It reproduces as highresolution, colour images every page of the surviving volumes of queen victoria s journals, from her first diary entry in 1832 to shortly before her death in 1901, along with separate. Free audio book that you can download in mp3, ipod and itunes format for your portable audio player.
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By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for. Librivox recording of queen victoria by lytton strachey. I recently purchased this book, victoria the queen. I had no real knowledge of princess louise and actually downloaded the book. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. A lively and intriguing biography of queen victoria, from her difficult and lonely childhood to her life as one of the most powerful women in the world. Free download or read online glass sword pdf epub red queen series book. The book went on to win the best debut novel award of the year. Aged 18 she became queen of great britain and she went on to rule for 63 years at the time she was the longestserving monarch in europe. Documentary series charting the story of queen victoria after the death of her beloved husband albert in 1861, examining how onebyone her children rebelled against her and the family were touched by tragedy. The best include lytton stracheys surprisingly tender queen victoria of 1921 and elizabeth longfords still highly readable victoria ri of 1964. List of books and articles about queen victoria online.
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