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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Quite readable. I need to research why it was republished in 2013. Strachey made it quite plain that he didn't think much of Victoria R. But was quite happy with Albert. Coming to this book with not having read anything else about her, I am loathe to buy everything in this book wholesale. I found Strachey's profiles of the Prime Ministers interesting, but again, I have nothing to base my reactions upon. Strachey, if I am not mistaken, was part of the Bloomsbury group with Virginia Wolfe, Bertrand Russell, and others. [Lytton Strachey]'s biography of Queen Victoria is not over the top in minute details. It is written more as a narrative or novel and is quite an enjoyable read. I do wish there was more information about her and her children's personal lives in lieu of detail of the relationship she had with each of her prime ministers. 2560 Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey (read 25 Dec 1993) Though I have read a two-volume biography of Strachey, till I read this I had never read any book of his. I found this very easy reading and quite evocative of the things it told about. I have read at least one detailed biography of Victoria, and this book does not pretend to be such--but I rather liked it. no reviews | add a review
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Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of 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 this 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 whic No library descriptions found. |
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This was a time when impulsive marriages could be made void with the stroke of a pen and uncles could fancy their nieces for matrimony. All marriages were open political and economical strategies. Marriage could alter friendships between entire nations. With arranged marriages it is usually the bride who feels trapped. Not so with the wedding of Albert and Victoria. It is the groom who does not want to go through with it. Too bad Victoria ended up marrying someone who wasn't all that popular. She had to deal with a "foreign" husband who could not be accepted by her ruling nation. After Albert's death, widowed at forty-two years old, she tried to bolster Albert's reputation posthumously. What she succeeds in accomplishing is a nation in love with her. She becomes one of the most adored royalty of all time. ( )