Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court: American Encounters with Victoria and Albert

by Stanley Weintraub

Little seems to have changed since Queen Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic Ocean; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in the sons and daughters of their last king, George III, developed a love-hate relationship with Victoria, his granddaughter, that lasted for all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161149060X
• ISBN13: 9781611490602
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"