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Longford, Elizabeth, 1906-2002.

Queen Victoria: born to succeed, by Elizabeth Longford.

[1st ed.].

New York, Harper & Row [1965, ©1964]

635 pages illustrations, folded genealogical table, portraits 25 cm

Biography of the life of British Queen Victoria.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.

Biographies.

Victoria R.I.

Originally published in London in 1964 under title: Victoria R.I.

"Reference notes": pages 579-604.

James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, 1964.

Born to succeed 1815-19 -- 'I will be good' 1819-30 -- Royal progress 1830-34 -- 'She must be coerced' 1835-37 -- Little victory 1837 -- The wonderful year 1837-38 -- Disenchantment 1838-39 -- 'Mama's amiable lady' 1839 -- Ladies of the bedchamber 1839 -- 'My beloved Albert' 1839-40 -- The blotting paper 1840 -- 'I am going' 1841-42 -- A safe haven 1842-46 -- 'Great events make me calm' 1846-48 -- The devil's son 1848-50 -- 'Our happy home life' 1846-51 -- 'Every age has its advantages' 1852-54 -- The unsatisfactory war 1854-56 -- Dinner á trios 1855-59 -- Last years of marriage 1855-60 -- 'He was my life' 1861 -- Still December 1861-64 -- Brown eminence the 1860s -- Granite and rock 1865-68 -- Head of all the family 1865-69 -- The royalty question 1870-74 -- The faery queen 1874-78 -- 'I had no alternative' 1878-80 -- Among the trumpets 1880-83 -- The bitter cry 1883-84 -- Gordon and the tup-tupping 1884-85 -- Home rule 1885-86 -- The jubilee bonnet 1887-91 -- 'Still endure' 1892-95 -- The labourer's task 1892-1900 -- 'Mother's come home' 1900-1901.

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