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Author : William Howitt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Land, Labor and Gold ; Or, Two Years in Victoria written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gillian Gill
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345514920
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book We Two written by Gillian Gill and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria’s secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which the partners dealt with surprisingly modern issues.” —USA Today It was the most influential marriage of the nineteenth century—and one of history’ s most enduring love stories. Traditional biographies tell us that Queen Victoria inherited the throne as a naïve teenager, when the British Empire was at the height of its power, and seemed doomed to find failure as a monarch and misery as a woman until she married her German cousin Albert and accepted him as her lord and master. Now renowned chronicler Gillian Gill turns this familiar story on its head, revealing a strong, feisty queen and a brilliant, fragile prince working together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity, qualities neither had seen much of as children. The love affair that emerges is far more captivating, complex, and relevant than that depicted in any previous account. The epic relationship began poorly. The cousins first met as teenagers for a few brief, awkward, chaperoned weeks in 1836. At seventeen, charming rather than beautiful, Victoria already “showed signs of wanting her own way.” Albert, the boy who had been groomed for her since birth, was chubby, self-absorbed, and showed no interest in girls, let alone this princess. So when they met again in 1839 as queen and presumed prince-consort-to-be, neither had particularly high hopes. But the queen was delighted to discover a grown man, refined, accomplished, and whiskered. “Albert is beautiful!” Victoria wrote, and she proposed just three days later. As Gill reveals, Victoria and Albert entered their marriage longing for intimate companionship, yet each was determined to be the ruler. This dynamic would continue through the years—each spouse, headstrong and impassioned, eager to lead the marriage on his or her own terms. For two decades, Victoria and Albert engaged in a very public contest for dominance. Against all odds, the marriage succeeded, but it was always a work in progress. And in the end, it was Albert’s early death that set the Queen free to create the myth of her marriage as a peaceful idyll and her husband as Galahad, pure and perfect. As Gill shows, the marriage of Victoria and Albert was great not because it was perfect but because it was passionate and complicated. Wonderfully nuanced, surprising, often acerbic—and informed by revealing excerpts from the pair’s journals and letters—We Two is a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, a fascinating modern perspective on a couple who have become a legend. BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide.
Author : William Howitt
Publisher : London : Longman ; Brown : Green and Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Land, Labour, and Gold written by William Howitt and published by London : Longman ; Brown : Green and Longman. This book was released on 1855 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William HOWITT
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two years in Victoria ... written by William HOWITT and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Year-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Arlen
Publisher : Howard Books
ISBN 13 : 1501174630
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Locked In written by Victoria Arlen and published by Howard Books. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESPN personality, former Dancing with the Stars contestant, and Paralympics champion Victoria Arlen shares her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven and how she broke free, overcame the odds, and never gave up hope. When Victoria Arlen was eleven years old, she contracted two rare diseases simultaneously and fell into a mysterious vegetative state. For two years her mind was dark, but in the third year, her mind broke free, and she was able to think clearly and to hear and feel everything—but no one knew. Her doctors wrote her off as a lost cause, and Victoria remained a prisoner in her own body for nearly four years. But every day, silently in her own mind, Victoria would pray to God, and she promised Him that if He gave her a second chance, she would make every moment count, and change the world for the better. At fifteen, against all odds and medical predictions, Victoria woke up. Finally she was able to communicate through eye blinks, and gradually, she regained her ability to speak and eat and move her upper body, but she faced the devastating reality of paralysis from the waist down because of damage to her spine. However, Victoria didn’t lose her strength or steadfast determination, and two years later, she won a gold medal for swimming at the London 2012 Paralympics. She went on to become one ESPN’s youngest on air-personalities and, after nearly ten years of paralysis, she learned to walk again and even competed on Dancing with the Stars. In Locked In, Victoria shares her inspiring story—the pain, the struggle, the fight to live and thrive, and most importantly, the faith that carried her through. Her journey was not easy, but by believing in God’s healing power and forgiveness, she is living proof that, despite seemingly insurmountable odds and challenges, the will to survive and resolve to live can be a force stronger than our worst deterrents.
Author : William Westgarth
Publisher : London : S. Low, Son & Marston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Colony of Victoria written by William Westgarth and published by London : S. Low, Son & Marston. This book was released on 1864 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Vallone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089509
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Becoming Victoria written by Lynne Vallone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part biography, part historical and cultural study, this richly illustrated volume uncovers in fascinating detail the childhood that Princess Victoria actually lived. Vallone shows readers a new Victoria--a lively and passionate girl very different from the iconic, dour widow of the queen's later life. 50 illustrations, 15 in color.
Author : Paterson Saunders
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Years in Victoria written by Paterson Saunders and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Reef
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544716140
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victoria written by Catherine Reef and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating biography about Queen Victoria (1819-1901), one of England's most fascinating royals. Her long reign was filled with drama, death, intrigue, and passion, and took place during a time of great transformation, an era that bears her name--the Victorian period. Full color. 8 x 10.
