Description
| Product ID: | 9780448481821 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Who Was? |
| Title: | Who Was Queen Victoria? |
| Authors: | Author: Jim Gigliotti, Max Hergenrother, Who HQ |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, People & places (Children's / Teenage), United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of 18. This book tells her story. Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of 18. She married her first cousin, Albert, and had nine children who married into families across Europe. By the time she had earned the nickname “The Grandmother of Europe” and the title “Empress of India” it was indeed true that the sun never set on the British Empire. Publicly, she became a national icon, but privately, Who Was Queen Victoria? |
| Imprint Name: | Grosset and Dunlap |
| Publisher Name: | Grosset and Dunlap |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-07-10 |
