HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Rappaport, Helen.
Subjects
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 -- Death and burial.
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 -- Influence.
Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Princes -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Rappaport, Helen.
by title:
A magnificent obsess...
MARC Display
A magnificent obsession : Victoria, Albert, and the death that changed the British monarchy / Helen Rappaport.
by
Rappaport, Helen.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Subjects
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 -- Death and burial.
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 -- Influence.
Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Princes -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
ISBN:
9780312621056 (hardcover) :
0312621051 (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Contents:
Christmas 1860 -- Albert the Good. 'The treadmill of never-ending business' ; 'The first real blow of misfortune' ; 'Fearfully in want of a true friend' ; 'Our most precious invalid' ; 'Day turned into night' ; 'Our great national calamity' ; 'Will they do him justice now?' ; 'How will the Queen bear it?' -- The broken-hearted widow. 'All alone!' ; 'The luxury of woe' ; 'A married daughter I must have living with me' ; 'god knows how I want so much to be taken care of' ; 'The Queen is invisible' ; 'Heaven has sent us this dispensation to save us' ; Albertopolis -- Christmas 1878 -- Appendix. What killed Prince Albert?
Requests:
0
Summary:
Uses Royal Archives sources to examine how the untimely death of Prince Albert plunged both his queen and the nation into a profound state of grief that reshaped the British monarchy.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
941.08109 Ra
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
941.08109 Rappaport
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kaimuki Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
941.08109 Ra
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.