Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court
Stanley Weintraub
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Description for Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted for all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with her death in the first weeks of the twentieth century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in ... Read more
Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted for all her sixty-four years on the throne, ending only with her death in the first weeks of the twentieth century. Victoria's long reign encompassed much of the time in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611490602
SKU
V9781611490602
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Ref
99-15
About Stanley Weintraub
Stanley Weintraub is Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, adjunct professor at the University of Delaware, and honorary professor at West Chester University. He is the author of fifty-five books including biographies of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Edward VII, and Benjamin Disraeli.
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