04540cam a2200589 4500 526237586 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250318336 1250318335 c5c739df-3f91-48fa-ae7a-b6dc91ecb1cb OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3980776 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Worsley, Lucy. Queen Victoria [Libby Audiobook] : Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life. Macmillan Audio, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 379MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 379MB. queen victoria matchmaking. queen victoria biography. queen victoria history. queen victoria mother. womens history month. Victorian womanhood. victoria and albert. English Monarchy. British Monarchy. women in history. female monarchs. british queens. english queens. books on tape. prince albert. victorian age. lucy wordsley. audio books. lucy worsly. audiobooks. bbc. HTML:<p><b>"Narrator Lucy Paterson provides a charming portrayal of a mother, matron, minx, and monarch: Queen Victoria of England...Paterson's tone is bright and cheerful, and she keeps the historical details lively." — <i>AudioFile Magazine</i></b></p> <p><b>This program includes an introduction read by the author, as well as a bonus interview exclusive to the audiobook.</b></p> <p><b>The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era.</b></p> <p>Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In <i>Queen Victoria,</i> Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light. Going beyond an exploration of the Queen merely as a monarch, Worsley considers Victoria as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. The book is structured around the various roles that Victoria inhabited— a daughter raised to wield power, a loving but tempestuous wife, a controlling mother, and a cunning widow—all while wearing the royal crown.</p> <p>Far from a proto-feminist, Queen Victoria was socially conservative and never supported women's rights. And yet, Victoria thwarted the strict rules of womanhood that defined the era to which she gave her name. She was passionate, selfish, and moody, boldly defying the will of politicians who sought to control her and emotionally controlling her family for decades. How did the woman who defined Victorian womanhood also manage to defy its conventions?</p> <p>Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria's correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life including her parents' wedding day, the day she met Albert, her own wedding day, the birth of her first child, a Windsor Christmas, the death of Prince Albert, and many more. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, difficult queen as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time.</p> <p><b>"Worsley gives us Victoria in all her infinite variety - queen and mother, matriach and minx. I loved it." — Daisy Goodwin, author of <i>The American Heiress, The Fortune Hunter</i> and</b> <i><b>Victoria: A Novel</b></i><br /></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Women's Studies. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Paterson, Lucy. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3980776-QueenVictoria.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c5c739df-3f91-48fa-ae7a-b6dc91ecb1cb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3980776-QueenVictoria.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c5c739df-3f91-48fa-ae7a-b6dc91ecb1cb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)