Titlebook: Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age; Richard W. Schoch Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

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Little People (Good and Bad) in her life, Victoria felt ‘almost as if it were I that was being married over again, only much more nervous’. She trembled so violently that her face appears blurred in a daguerreotype taken with her husband and daughter. The newlyweds enjoyed a brief honeymoon at Windsor Castle before leaving for Prussia.

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Hush Moneycing the ‘Californian sum’, as he facetiously overvalued his royal wages, in the poor box at Bow Street as the ‘joint contribution of Her Majesty and her loyal subject’.. The following account appeared shortly thereafter in the Lambeth police report:

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Epilogue: A Giddy Whirl of Theatre-goingbum, bound in red morocco leather with vellum sheets, opened with an address ‘To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty’. Printed in ornate Gothic script, the address hailed the ‘New Era’ in theatrical history brought about by the sovereign’s ‘Gracious Protection’:

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Book 2004, bountiful patron and tyrannical director of private theatricals. At times she appears formidable. More frequently she is impudent, high-spirited and unruly; a woman who delights in gory melodramas and circus acts. Queen Victoria and the Theatre of Her Age gives readers a deeply personal account of

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En Amateurselves with card games or reading aloud, putting on plays must have been tremendously exciting. Such theatrical pastimes certainly relieved the oppressive tedium that could mark domestic life for children and adults alike. Moreover, many in the respectable middle class looked on private theatricals

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Our Little Theatrethe Queen had commanded his performance in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s . and Mrs Centlivre’s . at the Haymarket. Yet now came astonishing news of even greater patronage: an invitation to direct command performances at Windsor Castle. The royal invitation sparked some jealousy in the theatrical world sinc

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Suspended, not Destroyedorty-two-year-old Victoria could not have known this would be her last visit to a public theatre. The next day she travelled to Frogmore House at Windsor, where the Duchess of Kent lay dying. ‘The dreaded terrible calamity has befallen us,’ she wrote on the day her seventy-four-year-old mother died;