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My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria's Life Through Her Letters
Photographs of Queen Victoria most often show a plump Empress wearing widow's black; serious and regal. The posed portrait photos were stiff, formal affairs, partly because subjects needed to stay...
Victorian Gallery
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some chipping at edges and corners, minor tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with age. Markings: No markings noted. Binding condition: Binding...
The Cyclopedia of Victoria (Illustrated) In Three Volumes. An Historical and Commercial Review. Descriptive and Biographical, Facts, Figures and Illustrations. An Epitome of Progress.
$1,200.00 AUD
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Victorian Squatters (SIGNED)
$250.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Faded and creased cover. Name penned on fep. Flat signed by Spreadborough on the title...
Victoria and Albert: Their Love and Their Tragedies
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsBeyond the rigid etiquette of the royal court lies the story of a passionate and tumultuous partnership that redefined the British...
Letters From Victorian Pioneers
$70.00 AUD
Author: Thomas Francis BrideBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann., 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Yellowed page edges, yellowed DJ. -
The Victorian Railway
The railway was the creation, in some ways the archetypal creation, of the Victorian age. It transformed the whole social and intellectual fabric of Britain, affected Victorian thought and language,...
Victorian Primitive
$30.00 AUD
Author: Miles LewisBinding: HardbackPublished: Greenhouse Publications, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMiles Lewis's Victorian Primitive presents a compelling examination of the complex relationship between Victorian society...
Not So Eminent Victorians
$30.00 AUD
Author: R.J.W Selleck And Martin SullivanBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical analysis re-examines the often-romanticized Victorian age, presenting a candid look...
Victorian Workhouse
The diary of Edith Lorrimer, England 1871 I was shown the laundry - a vast noisy sunless room full of steam and the sharp smell of soapsuds. I counted seven...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...
The Wort Papers
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark of Australian fiction, The Wort Papers is a wildly inventive,...
Maud: The Illustrated Diary Of A Victorian Woman
$50.00 AUD
Author: Flora FraserBinding: HardbackPublished: Chronicle Books, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book chronicles the intimate daily life of a Victorian woman, offering a unique window into the...
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life
Part journal, part commonplace book, among many gems you will find enlightenment and advice on everything from dreams to garlic; patriotism to wrinkles. Written throughout her life but only discovered...
A Victorian Diarist: Extracts From The Journals Of Mary, Lady Monkswell 1873-1895
$20.00 AUD
Author: Hon. E. C. F. CollierBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1944Condition:Book: PoorJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA Victorian Diarist: Extracts From The Journals Of Mary (Lady Monksmell) 1873-1895...
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the
Victorian culture is famous for its idealization of mothers and families, yet the popular novels of this period frequently feature mothers who are dead or otherwise absent. Through an analysis...
Beautiful Innocence: The heart-warming Victorian saga of triumph over
London, 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the jury declares her attacker 'not guilty', and the courtroom erupts into chaos. The man in the dock is being congratulated as...
Blood Matters: a Social History of the Victorian Red Cross Blood
The voluntary giving of blood to others is an astonishing social activity, but it doesn't just happen. This is the story of an organisation that has overcome many difficulties to...
Victoria: No Friend Like A Sister
$12.00 AUD
Author: Editors Of VictoriaBinding: HardbackPublished: Hearst Books, 1880Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA heartfelt celebration of sisterhood in all its forms, filled with stories of loyalty, laughter, and lifelong...
The Wort Papers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers chronicles the chaotic misadventures of Jack Wort, a wildly eccentric and...
The Wort Papers
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: No markingsA landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers chronicles the chaotic misadventures of Jack Wort, a wildly...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...
Victorian Psycho
' Jane Eyre meets American Psycho . Gloriously outrageous, sensationally unhinged' SUNDAY TIMES 'Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny' CATRIONA WARD 'Weird and wonderful' LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIAN Winifred Notty...
The Wort Papers
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat begins as a seemingly chaotic collection of notes, letters, and fragments soon reveals itself to be one...
The Wort Papers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some minor creasing and edge wear to dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed — tanning to page edges consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings....
Essential Mathematics for the Victorian Curriculum 9
Australia's most respected and comprehensive maths series for the Victorian Curriculum now in its second edition. The second edition of Essential Mathematics for the Victorian Curriculum provides comprehensive coverage of...
The Wort Papers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the singular imagination of Peter Mathers — the audacious Australian voice behind Trap — comes The Wort Papers, a...
A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed
$12.00 AUD
As she did in her critically acclaimed "The Last Days of the Romanovs," Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the...
A Mother's Betrayal: A heart-stopping and compelling Victorian saga from the bestselling author of A Shilling for a Wife
Author: Emma HornbyFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 251g, 368 pagesPublished: Transworld Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A new gritty, page-turning historical saga from Emma Hornby, Northern England's answer to Dilly Court....
William Burges And The High Victorian Dream
$100.00 AUD
Author: J. Mordaunt CrookBinding: PaperbackPublished: John Murray, London, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Extensive pencil underlining of internal pagesThis authoritative volume chronicles the extraordinary career...
A Victorian Diarist: Later Extracts From The Journals Of Mary, Lady Monkswell
$30.00 AUD
Author: Mary, Lady MonkswellBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA Victorian Diarist: Later Extracts From The Journals Of Mary...
A Change For The Better: Short Stories (SIGNED)
$60.00 AUD
Edition: No. 37 of 50 Limited Numbered and Signed copies. Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: SignedFrom one of Australia's most idiosyncratic and underappreciated literary voices comes A Change for the...
The Grandmothers: Victoria And The Staveneys; The Reason For It; A Love Child (SIGNED)
$80.00 AUD
Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionFour masterfully crafted novellas, bound together under the title The Grandmothers, present Doris Lessing at the height of her...
The Victorians: Arriving; Settling; Making Their Mark (Three-Volume Set)
$100.00 AUD
Author: Susan PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsMaking Their Mark presents a comprehensive history of women's contributions to Australian art. This insightful...
Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture
To what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the past without imposing one's own cultural, political, social, or personal preconceptions?...
The Secret Life Of Queen Victoria: Her Majesty's Missing Diaries. Being An Account Of Her Hitherto Unknown Travels Through The Island Of Jamaica In The Year 1871.
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical satire The Secret Life Of Queen Victoria: Her Majesty's Missing Diaries chronicles...
Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...
Eminent Victorian Women
$20.00 AUD
Author: Elizabeth LongfordBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis biographical work presents a captivating collection of portraits of influential women from the...
Father Figures: How A Child Of Victorian Dissent Saw The Certainties Of Liberal Progress Shattered By The 1914 War And Found New Convictions In Socialism And The Writings Of His Radical Contemporaries
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A compelling political memoir and autobiography, Father Figures chronicles the formative years...
The Shopgirl of Ironbridge: A dramatic and heartwarming Victorian saga
** New from Mollie Walton, twice finalist for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award' ** Will she find love again? Ironbridge, 1892. When seventeen-year-old Maria Keay is offered...
Weatherbeaten Wisdom: Colourful Characters Of The Victorian High Country (SIGNED)
$55.00 AUD
Author: Ian StapletonBinding: HardbackPublished: Self Published, Riverwood, NSW, 2008Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis historical account, "Weatherbeaten Wisdom: Colourful Characters Of The Victorian High Country," chronicles the lives...