Queen Victoria (Penguin Classic Biography S.)

by Lytton Strachey (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.88

  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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  Paperback
  1971

  $3.73