Christmas
in the Works of
Stanley Weintraub
Disraeli:A Biography
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1993
p. 386
...on December 14, the Prince´s [Prince Albert] life ebbed away....In weeds and widow´s cap....Queen [Victoria] had been hurried off to Osborne, the funeral...at Windsor held without her. Mourning fittings everywhere exhausted supplies of black drapery throughout the kingdom, with fresh shipments of cotton from America doubtful as a result of the blockade of Confederate ports by the Union.
Christmas was darkened, but the new session of Parliament
was not delayed...
Index of Weintraub Christmas Exhibit Pages
- Dear Young Friend: The Letters of American Presidents to Children
- Albert: Uncrowned King
- Victoria: An Intimate Biography
- Shaw's People: Victoria to Churchill
- Disraeli: A Biography
- Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897, Volume I
- Bernard Shaw: The Diaries 1885-1897, Volume II
- Shaw: An Autobiography 1856-1898
- The Playwright and the Pirate: Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence
- Bernard Shaw 1914-1918: Journey to Heartbreak
- Private Shaw and Public Shaw: a dual portrait of Lawrence of Arabia and G.B.S.
- Lawrence of Arabia: the literary impulse
- Silent Night: The Christmas Truce of 1914
- The Last Great Cause: The Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War
- Reggie: A Portrait of Reginald Turner
- Whistler: A Biography
- Beardsley: A Biography
- Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse
- Four Rossettis: A Victorian Biography
- Exhibit: Story of Stanley Tree
- Exhibit: Stanley Tree Photograph 1
- Exhibit: Stanley Tree Photograph 2
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