Queen Victoria (Modern Classics)

by Lytton Strachey (Author)

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  Paperback
  1971

  $3.23

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.23

  Lytton Strachey's 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 an iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-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 her staid, pious image.

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  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.23

  This illustrated edition of Lytton Strachey's biography of Queen Victoria has been published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of her accession to the throne. The author shows obvious admiration and affection for Queen Victoria and this together with the use of archive material, in particular from the Royal archives at Windsor, helps to evoke the atmosphere of the period. The illustrations include advertisements, ephemera, drawings and watercolours - some by Queen Victoria herself.