Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dickens' Dreadful Almanac Dickens' Dreadful Almanac Charles Dickens Victorian news snippets OL15900949W
Albert Albert Jules Stewart "Albert: Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, social and cultural visionary in his own right, was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of 19th century Br… OL16770563W
Bertie Bertie Jane Ridley Edward Vll, who gave his name to the Edwardian Age and died in 1911, was King of England for the final 10 years of his life. He was 59 when at last he came to power. Known as Bertie, and the eldest s… OL21055065W
Prince Leopold Prince Leopold Charlotte Zeepvat viii, 216 p., [8] p. of plates : 25 cm OL2227948W
Visitors Visitors Rupert Christiansen "London in 1820 was a city of extraordinary creative dynamism and big money. Rupert Christiansen has marshaled the experiences of a set of remarkable foreign visitors to England, chronicling their im… OL2448869W
Queen Victoria's secrets Queen Victoria's secrets Adrienne Munich pages OL2970567W
Victorian girls Victorian girls Sheila Fletcher The daughters of George, fourth Lord Lyttelton, were the nieces of Prime Minister Gladstone. Their letters and diaries provide a detailed picture of their lives at home in Worcestershire and in fashi… OL3286741W
Coalmining women Coalmining women Angela V. John A history of women in the coal mines of Great Britain. OL3487034W
Victorians at Home Victorians at Home Susan Lasdun Traces the changing character of English interior design and home life during the Victorian era in representative contemporary Victorian watercolors, drawings, and photographs OL4276023W
Queen Victoria Queen Victoria Christopher Hibbert 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 … OL456645W
Women of the regiment Women of the regiment Myna Trustram Sample pages are available at Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=iPo8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover OL5606992W
Victorian murderesses Victorian murderesses Hartman, Mary S. This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, an… OL6621034W
Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914 Memory and Memorials, 1789-1914 M. Campbell Focusing on the 'long' nineteenth century, from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an era of furious social change. Through an exam… OL8096487W