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A Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister by Andro Linklater Publisher Comments At approximately 5:15 P.M. on the afternoon of May 11, 1812, Spencer Perceval, the all powerful prime minister of Great Britain, was fatally shot at short range in the lobby of Parliament by John Bellingham, a Liverpool businessman. Perceval polarized... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Victorians by A N Wilson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 659-687) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Modern Library) by Amanda Foreman Publisher Comments The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose Publisher Comments In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Victorians by A N Wilson Publisher Comments The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of the Original People's Princess by James Chambers Publisher Comments The tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. A story that Jane Austen famously declined to tell, declaring: "I could no more write a romance... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray Publisher Comments The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill Staff Pick Absolutely fascinating biography of a brilliant Victorian woman, her times, and her hugely interesting family. Florence struggled successfully against all the conventions of her time and Gill tells her story with nuance, skill, and empathy. This is one... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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William Pitt the Younger by William Hague Publisher Comments William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. In this lively and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Curzon Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour Publisher Comments Elegant biography . . . a fast-moving, entertaining, and finely written story. --Simon Schama, The New Yorker George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country's empire to the traumatized years... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England by Douglas Hay Publisher Comments In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In... (read more) Your price: $28.75 New - Trade Paper
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Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900 by Mark Girouard Publisher Comments Mark Girouard describes the 'Queen Anne' movement in all its manifestations, tracing its origin in the 1860s, the spread of its subsequent vogue from London to the provinces, and from England to America, and is fall from grace in the 1890s when it was... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Duchess by Amanda Foreman Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Now a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne Publisher Comments This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian by Julia Markus Publisher Comments An acclaimed biographer delivers an illuminating portrait of the brilliant, tortured, and controversial James Anthony Froude, the quintessential Victorian, father of modern biography, historian, diplomat, and prodigal son.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $3.75 Used - Hardcover
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Queen Victoria's Little Wars by Byron Farwell Publisher Comments From 1837 to 1901, in Asia, China, Canada, Africa, and elsewhere, military expedition were constantly being undertaken to protect resident Britons or British interests, to extend a frontier, to repel an attack, avenge an insult, or suppress a mutiny or... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone Vs. Disraeli by Richard Aldous Publisher Comments William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the nineteenth century. Their intense mutual hatred was both ideologically driven and deeply personal. Their vitriolic duels, carried out over decades, lend profound insight... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection by Margaret D Stetz Publisher Comments This is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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George IV (English Monarchs) by E A Smith Publisher Comments This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, reassesses the role of this colorful ruler as constitutional monarch. E. A. Smith provides a full and objective account of the monarch's character, reputation, and achievement... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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