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Author : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN : WISC:89003584141
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314575909
Author : Queen Victoria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1139923730
This nine-volume selection from the letters of Queen Victoria, with ancillary material, was commissioned by her son, Edward VII, and published between 1907 and 1932, with a gap of almost twenty years between the third and fourth volumes. The editor of the 'Second Series', which covers the years from 1862 to 1885, was George Earle Buckle (1854-1935), a historian and former editor of The Times, who continued the editorial policy of his predecessors, but who needed to tread carefully, as many of the people mentioned in documents of the second part of Queen Victoria's reign were still alive when Volumes 4-6 were published between 1926 and 1928. Volume 6 covers the period 1879-85, and includes the death of Disraeli, the disaster of General Gordon at Khartoum, and the turbulent political background to the issue of Irish home rule.
Author : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN : PSU:000008149831
Author : Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:B4071830
Author : Victoria I (Reine d'Angleterre.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:714997720
Author : Ilana D Miller
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399099721
Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign. From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire. Political, scientific, and industrial wonders were changing the world. Britain's influence reached all corners of the earth. But there was one area that particularly intrigued the Queen. Men. Keenly aware of the opposite sex, her most trusted advisors were men. Lord Melbourne, her first prime minister, was an avuncular presence. Then her beloved husband Prince Albert took the reins until his death in 1861. In a widowhood of forty years, her ministers were a varied lot. She adored Disraeli, disliked Gladstone, and found genuine friendship with Lord Salisbury. Then there was Mr. Brown, the Scottish ghillie who she found wonderfully attractive. Later there was Abdul Karim, the Munshi, or teacher with whom she had a motherly relationship. She adored her son-in-law, Prince Henry of Battenberg, the 'sunshine of their lives' and was devastated when he died. She also loved her grandson-in-law, Prince Louis Battenberg, who was one of the executors of her will. Those years without Albert were not barren loveless years, they were not without happiness and pleasure, even if the queen herself might protest.
Author : Queen Victoria,Victoria Victoria
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108077811
This nine-volume selection from the letters of Queen Victoria was commissioned by Edward VII, and published between 1907 and 1932.
Author : Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9781465529466
Entrusted by His Majesty the King with the duty of making a selection from Queen Victoria's correspondence, we think it well to describe briefly the nature of the documents which we have been privileged to examine, as well as to indicate the principles which have guided us throughout. It has been a task of no ordinary difficulty. Her Majesty Queen Victoria dealt with her papers, from the first, in a most methodical manner; she formed the habit in early days of preserving her private letters, and after her accession to the Throne all her official papers were similarly treated, and bound in volumes. The Prince Consort instituted an elaborate system of classification, annotating and even indexing many of the documents with his own hand. The result is that the collected papers form what is probably the most extraordinary series of State documents in the world. The papers which deal with the Queen's life up to the year 1861 have been bound in chronological order, and comprise between five and six hundred volumes. They consist, in great part, of letters from Ministers detailing the proceedings of Parliament, and of various political memoranda dealing with home, foreign, and colonial policy; among these are a few drafts of Her Majesty's replies. There are volumes concerned with the affairs of almost every European country; with the history of India, the British Army, the Civil List, the Royal Estates, and all the complicated machinery of the Monarchy and the Constitution. There are letters from monarchs and royal personages, and there is further a whole series of volumes dealing with matters in which the Prince Consort took a special interest. Some of them are arranged chronologically, some by subjects. Among the most interesting volumes are those containing the letters written by Her Majesty to her uncle Leopold, King of the Belgians, and his replies.1 The collection of letters from and to Lord Melbourne forms another hardly less interesting series. In many places Queen Victoria caused extracts, copied from her own private Diaries, dealing with important political events or describing momentous interviews, to be inserted in the volumes, with the evident intention of illustrating and completing the record.
Author : Queen Victoria
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732624287
Reproduction of the original.
Author : James Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350142442
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
Author : Queen Victoria of Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1849023794
A comprehensive collection of Queen Victoria's letters during the years 1854-1861, including winsome notes to relatives, as well as serious matters of state. This collection provides a unique glimpse into a Victoria's world and life.
Author : Julie Kavanagh
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780802149381
A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author
Author : Richard Aldous
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448138173
‘Engaging and highly entertaining’ Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal. Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories 'on which the sun never set'. The vitriolic duel between Gladstone and Disraeli was nothing less than a battle to lead the richest and most powerful nation on earth. To Disraeli, his antagonist was an 'unprincipled maniac' characterised by an 'extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition'. For Gladstone, his rival was 'The Grand Corrupter' whose destruction he plotted 'day and night, week by week, month by month'. Victorians were electrified by the confrontation. No wonder that when Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass appeared in 1871, so many readers recognised the great adversaries as the warring lion and unicorn 'fighting for the crown'. Richard Aldous gives us the first modern telling of this dramatic story of an intense and momentous rivalry. His vivid narrative style - at turns powerful, witty, stirring and theatrical - breathes new life into a familiar, half-remembered tale that is pivotal in Britain's island history. The Lion and the Unicorn is a brilliant rethinking of the Gladstone and Disraeli story for a new generation. Richard Aldous confirms a perennial truth: in politics, everything is personal.
Author : Queen Victoria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9356783349
