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Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria S Reign by John Ashton
✏Book Title : Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria s Reign ✏Author : John Ashton ✏Publisher : Library of Alexandria ✏Release Date : 2015-09-02 ✏Pages : 123 pages ✏ISBN : 9781465599742 ✏Rating: 4/5 from 21 users GET BOOK
✏Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria s Reign Book Summary : ÊKing William the Fourth was as sincerely fond of his niece, Alexandrina Victoria, as he cordially detested her mother, and he earnestly hoped that she might obtain her majority, which took place on the 24th of May, 1837, before he died, for he had a horror of the Duchess of Kent having even the shadowy power of a Regent. Greville, in his Memoirs, writing on 23rd of May, says: ÒThe King prayed that he might live till the Princess Victoria was of age, and he was very nearly dying just as the event arrived. He is better, but supposed to be in a very precarious state. There has been a fresh squabble between Windsor and Kensington about a proposed allowance to the Princess.Ó The old King lived but a very short time after the desired event, for he expired at 2.12 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1837, and how the sad news was broken to the young Sovereign may best be told in the words of that mine of anecdote, Miss Frances Williams Wynn, the daughter of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (the fourth baronet): ÒOn Monday we were listening all day for the tolling of the bells, watching whether the guests were going to the Waterloo dinner at Apsley House. On Tuesday, at 2_ a.m., the scene closed, and in a very short time the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, the Chamberlain, set out to announce the event to their young Sovereign. They reached Kensington Palace at about five; they knocked, they rang, they thumped for a considerable time before they could rouse the porter at the gates; they were again kept waiting in the courtyard, then turned into one of the lower rooms, where they seemed forgotten by everybody. They rang the bell, desiring that the attendant of the Princess Victoria might be sent to inform H.R.H. that they requested an audience on business of importance. After another delay, and another ringing to enquire the cause, the attendant was summoned, who stated that the Princess was in such a sweet sleep, she could not venture to disturb her. Then they said, ÔWe come to the Queen on business of State, and even her sleep must give way to that.Õ It did; and, to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white night-gown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.Ó Lord Melbourne was summoned to Kensington Palace by the Queen at 9 a.m., and a Privy Council was called for 11 a.m., but the notice was so short that several of the Privy Councillors had no time to put on their official costume, and were obliged to attend in undress. Amongst others who made their appearance at Court in this novel fashion were the Duke of Cumberland (then, by the fact of the KingÕs death, King of Hanover) and Lord Glenelg.
✏Book Title : Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria s Reign ✏Author : John Ashton ✏Publisher : Library of Alexandria ✏Release Date : 2015-09-02 ✏Pages : ✏ISBN : 9781465599742 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria s Reign Book Summary : ÊKing William the Fourth was as sincerely fond of his niece, Alexandrina Victoria, as he cordially detested her mother, and he earnestly hoped that she might obtain her majority, which took place on the 24th of May, 1837, before he died, for he had a horror of the Duchess of Kent having even the shadowy power of a Regent. Greville, in his Memoirs, writing on 23rd of May, says: ÒThe King prayed that he might live till the Princess Victoria was of age, and he was very nearly dying just as the event arrived. He is better, but supposed to be in a very precarious state. There has been a fresh squabble between Windsor and Kensington about a proposed allowance to the Princess.Ó The old King lived but a very short time after the desired event, for he expired at 2.12 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1837, and how the sad news was broken to the young Sovereign may best be told in the words of that mine of anecdote, Miss Frances Williams Wynn, the daughter of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (the fourth baronet): ÒOn Monday we were listening all day for the tolling of the bells, watching whether the guests were going to the Waterloo dinner at Apsley House. On Tuesday, at 2_ a.m., the scene closed, and in a very short time the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Conyngham, the Chamberlain, set out to announce the event to their young Sovereign. They reached Kensington Palace at about five; they knocked, they rang, they thumped for a considerable time before they could rouse the porter at the gates; they were again kept waiting in the courtyard, then turned into one of the lower rooms, where they seemed forgotten by everybody. They rang the bell, desiring that the attendant of the Princess Victoria might be sent to inform H.R.H. that they requested an audience on business of importance. After another delay, and another ringing to enquire the cause, the attendant was summoned, who stated that the Princess was in such a sweet sleep, she could not venture to disturb her. Then they said, ÔWe come to the Queen on business of State, and even her sleep must give way to that.Õ It did; and, to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white night-gown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.Ó Lord Melbourne was summoned to Kensington Palace by the Queen at 9 a.m., and a Privy Council was called for 11 a.m., but the notice was so short that several of the Privy Councillors had no time to put on their official costume, and were obliged to attend in undress. Amongst others who made their appearance at Court in this novel fashion were the Duke of Cumberland (then, by the fact of the KingÕs death, King of Hanover) and Lord Glenelg.
✏Book Title : Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria s Reign Illustrated by Reproductions from Cartoons and Other Drawings With an Introd and Bibliography by Leslie Shepard London Hurst and Blackett 1903 ✏Author : John Ashton ✏Publisher : ✏Release Date : ✏Pages : 315 ✏ISBN : LCCN:67023942 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria s Reign Illustrated by Reproductions from Cartoons and Other Drawings With an Introd and Bibliography by Leslie Shepard London Hurst and Blackett 1903 Book Summary :
✏Book Title : Gossip ✏Author : John Ashton ✏Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand ✏Release Date : 2019-09-25 ✏Pages : 280 ✏ISBN : 9783734075391 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Gossip Book Summary : Reproduction of the original: Gossip by John Ashton
✏Book Title : When William IV was King ✏Author : John Ashton ✏Publisher : ✏Release Date : 1896 ✏Pages : 355 ✏ISBN : UCAL:B3660638 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Book Title : The Huntington Library quarterly ✏Author : ✏Publisher : ✏Release Date : 1976 ✏Pages : ✏ISBN : UCAL:B4274151 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Book Title : The Making of Victorian Sexuality ✏Author : Michael Mason ✏Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA ✏Release Date : 1994 ✏Pages : 338 ✏ISBN : UVA:X002492167 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏The Making of Victorian Sexuality Book Summary : * A challenging examination of Victorian sexuality.* Confronts one of the most persistent historical cliches of modern times.* Draws on a wealth of documentary evidence including medical, scientific, religious, demographic, and literary texts.At a time when AIDS, abortion, and sexual abuse have become favourite topics of media and academic debate, it is no surprise that the Victorians, with their strong associations with prudery and puritanism, are frequently held up as an example of a sexual culture far different from our own. Yet whatdid the Victorians really think about sex? What was the reality of their sexual behaviour, and what wider concepts - biological, political, religious - influenced their sexual moralism?The Making of Victorian Sexuality directly confronts one of the most persistent cliches of modern times. Michael Mason shows how much of our perception of nineteenth-century sexual culture is simply wrong. Far from being a license for prudery and hypocrisy, Victorian sexual moralism is shown to bein reality a code intelligently embraced by wealthy and poor alike as part of a humane and progressive vision of society's future. The `average' Victorian man was not necessarily the church-going, tyrannical, secretly lecherous, bourgeois `paterfamilias' of modern-day legend, but often an agnostic,radical-minded, sexually continent citizen, with a deliberately restricted number of children.Persuasively arguing that there is much in Victorian sexual moralism to teach the complacently libertarian twentieth century, this lively and fascinating study offers a radical challenge to one of the most persistent myths of our age.
✏Book Title : The Youthful Queen Victoria ✏Author : Dorothy Julia Baynes ✏Publisher : London : Macmillan ✏Release Date : 1952 ✏Pages : 428 ✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105035974943 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Book Title : Conversation ✏Author : Mary Greer Conklin ✏Publisher : ✏Release Date : 1912 ✏Pages : 186 ✏ISBN : UCAL:B4095372 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
✏Book Title : The Early Victorians at Home 1837 1861 ✏Author : Elizabeth Burton ✏Publisher : Longman Publishing Group ✏Release Date : 1972 ✏Pages : 336 ✏ISBN : UOM:39015005281996 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
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✏Book Title : Writings on British History ✏Author : Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) ✏Publisher : ✏Release Date : 1970 ✏Pages : ✏ISBN : UCAL:B4670652 ✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French GET BOOK
