Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Modernisation of the British Monarchy - Softcover

Murphy, Paul Thomas

 
9781781851975: Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Modernisation of the British Monarchy

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'It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.' – Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria was attacked an astonishing eight times during her sixty-three year reign.

Victoria's would-be assassins succeeded in changing the course of British history; whose penal system, legal system and policing would never be the same again. Taking the queen's mad, marginalized attackers as his starting point for an investigation of the entire era, Paul Thomas Murphy weaves elegantly through all layers of nineteenth century society and culture. A rollicking, riveting history, Shooting Victoria is the most multi-faceted story of Victorian Britain to date.

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Paul Thomas Murphy is the author of the much-praised Shooting Victoria. He earned PhD from the University of Colorado where he taught interdisciplinary writing on Victorian topics. He currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.

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