| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 46 min.)) : digital. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Heather Wilds. |
| Summary |
Vicky, Alice, Helena, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would curiously come to share many of the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by nineteenth-century women of less-exulted class. Principally researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-and entertainingly written by an experienced biographer whose last book concerned Victoria's final days-Victoria's Daughters closely examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and finally passed over entirely with the accession of their brother Bertie to the throne. Jerrold M. Packard provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as daughters of their time. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Family.
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Victoria, Empress, consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, 1840-1901.
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Alice, Grand Duchess, consort of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1843-1878.
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Helena Augusta Victoria, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, 1846-1923.
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Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll, 1848-1939.
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Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg, 1857-1944.
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Marriages of royalty and nobility -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Mothers and daughters -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography.
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Princesses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Wilds, Heather.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541420823 (sound recording) |
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1541420829 (sound recording) |
| Music No. |
MWT11853081 |
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