Summary
Victoria: A Queen Revealed
Drawing upon Queen Victoria’s previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford’s classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from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 formidab…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474608756 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474608752 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Longford |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 42mm |
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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
A full, authoritative study - The SpectatorDazzlingly readable, and very enjoyableVery 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 BooksAbout The Author
Elizabeth Longford
Elizabeth Pakenham CBE (otherwise known as Elizabeth Longford) was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a lifelong socialist, and the author of several hugely acclaimed biographies. She wrote a celebrated two-volume biography of Wellington, and biographies of Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. Victoria was her second book.
She had eight children with her husband Frank Pakenham, among them historians Lady Antonia Fraser and Thomas Pakenham. She died on 23 October 2002.
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