Victoria's Daughters Contributor(s): Packard, Jerrold M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312244967 ISBN-13: 9780312244965 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: The story of five women--daughters of Queen Victoria--who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time. 16-page insert. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Royalty - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 98021116 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.25 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time... Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, 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 face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-century women of far less exalted class. Researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects-- in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- Victoria's Daughters examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and passed over entirely when their brother Bertie ascended to the throne. Packard, an experienced biographer whose last book chronicled Victoria's final days, provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as scions of Europe's most influential dynasty, and daughters of their own very troubled times. |
Contributor Bio(s): Packard, Jerrold M.: - Jerrold Packard's books include the best-selling Victoria's Daughters, the life stories of the five princesses born to Britain's longest-reigning monarch; Sons of Heaven, a chronicle of Japan's monarchy over fourteen centuries; and American Nightmare, the history of Jim Crow and the racial torment that America endured for more than a hundred years in the wake of the Civil War. Mr. Packard lives in Vermont. |