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Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's court American encounters with Victoria and Albert

"Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; 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 inter...

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Main Author: Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press, Ã2011.
Subjects:
Local author.
Victoria, > Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1901 > Public opinion.
Albert, > Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1861 > Public opinion.
National characteristics, American > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
Americans > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
United States > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > United States.
Great Britain > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 1
  • Republican Yankees
  • 1
  • 2
  • Coronation and After
  • 15
  • 3
  • Victoria and Albert
  • 31
  • 4
  • Yankee Doodle Comes to Town
  • 53
  • 5
  • Seeing the Queen
  • 67
  • 6
  • Before the Deluge
  • 81
  • 7
  • Civil War at Home
  • 99
  • 8
  • An End to Seclusion
  • 115
  • 9
  • Guest Tales
  • 131
  • 10
  • "Grandmother England"
  • 147
  • 11
  • Command Performances
  • 163
  • 12
  • Jubilee Encore
  • 181
  • 13
  • Last Encounters
  • 201.

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