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1 online resource. |
| Summary |
During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician.Drawing on their letters and diaries--many hitherto unpublished--Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court, with all its frustrations and absurdities, as well as the Queen herself, sitting squarely at its center. Seen through the eyes of her household as she traveled among Windsor, Osborne, and Balmoral, and to the French and Belgian courts, Victoria emerges as more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish, more comical, than the austere figure depicted in her famous portraits. We see a woman who... |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : HarperCollins e-books, 2013. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5020 KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Employees.
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
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Royal households -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Household employees -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Courts and courtiers -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780062269928 |
| ISBN |
9780062269935 (electronic bk) |
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