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- catalog abstract "The unearthing of lively, telling anecdotes is the special province of Christopher Hibbert, who delights in forcing readers, in the most entertaining way, to reassess all their notions about some of the world's most intriguing historical figures. His biography of Victoria is no exception. We learn in these pages that not only was she the formidable, demanding, capricious Queen of popular imagination, but she was also often shy and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often puritanical and censorious when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be passionately sensual, emotional, and deeply sentimental. Her 64-year reign saw thrones fall, empires crumble, new continents explored, and England's rise to global and industrial dominance. Hibbert's account of Victoria's life and times is just as sweeping as he reveals to us the real Victoria in all her complexity: failed mother and imperious monarch, irrepressible woman and icon of a repressive age.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b12336454.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-534) and index.".
- catalog description "Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers -- 1819-1861 -- 1861-1901.".
- catalog description "The unearthing of lively, telling anecdotes is the special province of Christopher Hibbert, who delights in forcing readers, in the most entertaining way, to reassess all their notions about some of the world's most intriguing historical figures. His biography of Victoria is no exception. We learn in these pages that not only was she the formidable, demanding, capricious Queen of popular imagination, but she was also often shy and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often puritanical and censorious when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be passionately sensual, emotional, and deeply sentimental. Her 64-year reign saw thrones fall, empires crumble, new continents explored, and England's rise to global and industrial dominance. Hibbert's account of Victoria's life and times is just as sweeping as he reveals to us the real Victoria in all her complexity: failed mother and imperious monarch, irrepressible woman and icon of a repressive age.--From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 557 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Queen Victoria.".
- catalog identifier "0465067611".
- catalog isFormatOf "Queen Victoria.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Queen Victoria.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "941.081/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "DA554 .H5 2000".
- catalog subject "Queens Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Queen Victoria's Prime Ministers -- 1819-1861 -- 1861-1901.".
- catalog title "Queen Victoria : a personal history / Christopher Hibbert.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".