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United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern period, c 1500 onwards, Biography: historical, political & military, Biography: royalty, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
A new edition of the classic 1964 biography of Queen Victoria, reissued for the 200th anniversary of her birth.
Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from a severe, time-worn effigy into a human being who loved, feared and fumed.
Longford probes the contradictions of a woman who wore a bonnet instead of a crown at her Golden Jubilee and yet was recognised always as both dignified and formidable. She chronicles both the Queen's public life and her emotional travails, including surprisingly stormy passages in her and Prince Albert's otherwise loving marriage. A refreshingly human image of the Queen emerges: voluble, passionate, politic and articulate, with an irresistible mixture of grandeur and simplicity.
Praise for Queen Victoria
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It is hard to imagine how Lady Longford's detailed and vivid volume could have been bettered . . . scholarly yet racily readable, witty yet wise - Sunday Times
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A full, authoritative study - The Spectator
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Dazzlingly readable, and very enjoyable
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Very few biographies which have reached the public in recent years can have as good a claim to be called "definitive" as has Elizabeth Longford's life of Queen Victoria - New York Books
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