How to Be Victorian: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life by Ruth Goodman (nonfiction book) Known as one of history’s most powerful and happily married couples, Victoria and Albert together ruled the British Empire for twenty years at the peak of its strength.
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill (nonfiction book) Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire by Julia Baird (nonfiction book)įifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth in 1819, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into a world where revolutions threatened many of Europe’s monarchs, the Industrial Revolution was transforming the landscape and the British Empire was commanding large tracts of the globe.īecoming Victoria by Victoria Vallone (nonfiction book)Ī fresh assessment, based on young Victoria’s own letters, stories, drawing and journals, follows the princess from childhood through accession to the throne at age eighteen. Learn the history behind the dramatization and find out about life in Victorian England with these books and documentaries. Navigating the scandal, corruption and political intrigue at Court, she soon rises to become the most powerful woman in the world. Victoria begins in 1837, when a diminutive, neglected teenager is crowned Great Britain’s Queen.
Victoria, a PBS Masterpiece Theatre offering, is one the most recent additions to the Lititz Public Library’s popular British television selections.
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