Queen Victoria
eBook - PDF

Queen Victoria

A Life

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Queen Victoria

A Life

About this book

Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the eighteen-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow. Equally fascinating are the depictions of her relationships: with her governess, 'precious Lehzen', with Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli, with her beloved Albert and, in later life, her legendary devotion to her Highland servant John Brown, all of which show a different side of the staid, pious image that is so often attached to her. Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Strachey's classic biography remains one of the best and most readable accounts of the Queen who defined an era.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781780760483
eBook ISBN
9780857721433
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. 1. Antecedents
  3. 2. Childhood
  4. 3. Lord Melbourne
  5. 4. Marriage
  6. 5. Lord Palmerston
  7. 6. Last Years of the Prince Consort
  8. 7. Widowhood
  9. 8. Mr Gladstone and Lord Beaconsflield
  10. 9. Old Age
  11. 10. The End
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index of Names