Member: lolitaguy

CollectionsAmericana (36), Antiquarian (32), Archive (16), Ars Gratia Artis (9), Britain 1: Generalities (13), Britain 2: Medieval Times (7), Britain 3: Tudor Times, 1485-1603 (8), Britain 4: The Stuart Clan with William & Mary (and Anne!) (5), Britain 5: Georgian Times, 1714-1811 (23), Britain 6: George IV & The Regency (25), Britain 7: The Days of Billy (4), Britain 8: Edwardians & Neo-Georgians, 1901-1914 (21), Britain 9: 1914-1952 (64), Britain 10: The New Elizabethans, 1952- (56), Britain 11: The Empire (35), Britain 12: Life at Court (27), Britain 13: Royal Residences (8), Britain 14: General Royalty (12), Britain 15: Church of England (18), Canadiana (41), Computers (7), Cottage library (45), Currently reading (2), Dad's Books (32), Education (9), English 101 (48), European History (29), Favorites (1), Feminism 101 (7), GLBTQ (19), Germanistik (56), Hobbies (33), Humour (35), In a New York Minute (28), It's a London Thing (20), Languages & Culture (37), Librarianship (11), Linguistics (8), Living on the Edge (2), Media Studies (28), Music: Composer Studies (42), Music Analysis (11), Music Appreciation (9), Music Scores (53), Music Theory (71), Musical Instruments (6), Musicology (42), Odds & Ends (22), Oversize (88), Philosophy/Religion (17), Psych (12), Reference (36), Signs of the Times (100), Slavic & East European (130), (Sub)Urban Geography (8), Tra(i)nsportation (17), Underground Books (13), Victoriana 1: Generalities (89), Victoriana 2: VRI (56), Victoriana 3: Statesmen (39), Victoriana 4: Institutions (8), Vinyl sound archive (2), Wishlist (7,969), Your library (6), All collections (9,760)

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Tags19th century (429), Queen Victoria (364), 20th century (204), Prince of Wales (202), politics (194), World War II (161), United States (160), George V (157), women (156), imperialism (151) — see all tags

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About my libraryMany hardcover books, specialty in history of British Royalty, and British cultural history of the Regency and 19th centuries. Many biographies of Queen Victoria. Sideline collections feature British Empire, Post-Colonial studies, and literary criticism of late 19th-century British authors. Secondary area of concentration music general, music theory, including a small collection of music socres (mostly Universal Edition works by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern). Third, language and cultural/political histories of Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia.

Groups18th-19th Century Britain, E. F. Benson, English History - Tudor through Edwardian, Folio Society Devotees, History: On learning from and writing history, It's a LondonThing, Victoriana

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Member sinceOct 3, 2008

Currently readingThe Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli by Richard Aldous
Upstairs and Downstairs: British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey by