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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 interested in t...

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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:
Victoria, > Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1901 > Public opinion.
Albert, > Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, > 1819-1861 > Public opinion.
United States > Relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Relations > United States.
National characteristics, American > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century.
Public opinion > United States > History > 19th century.
Americans > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
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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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