Victoria
Longford, Elizabeth, 1906-20022011
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This classic biography preserves the fascinating interweaving of state with family affairs which characterised Queen Victoria's unprecedented career. It contains material from the Royal Archives, including passages from Queen Victoria's journals. Queen Victoria, a woman of diminutive stature and superabundant temperament, gave her name to something more than an age.Using unrestricted access to material from the Royal Archives, including previously unpublished passages Queen Victoria's celebrated Journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic account remains the definitive biography of this extraordinary woman. She shows the queen tormented by an unhappy childhood; tantalised by an all-too-brief happy marriage; deeply shocked at the Prince Consort's death. She depicts the gradual emergence of the queen's renowned qualities, together with some surprising traits, presenting her in a fresh, affectionate and thoroughly human light.'Dazzlingly readable, and very enjoyable' Stella Gibbons
Main title:
Victoria / Elizabeth Longford.
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Edition:
[New] ed.
Imprint:
London : Abacus, 2011.
Collation:
xii, 692 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This ed. originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780349123516 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.081092B VIC
LC class:
DA554
Language:
English
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BRN:
331309