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Queen Victoria: a life of contradictions



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Titolo: Queen Victoria: a life of contradictions Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: HarperCollins UK
Disciplina: 941.081092
Soggetto topico: Audiobooks
Queens
Altri autori: DennisonMatthew  
CorbettClare  
Sommario/riassunto: A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight.'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched, beautifully written and very accessible book, she has found one' Andrew RobertsQueen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name.Victoria embraced photography, railway travel and modern art; she resisted compulsory education for the working classes, recommended for a leading women's rights campaigner 'a good whipping' and detested smoking. She may or may not have been amused.Meanwhile she reinvented the monarchy and wrestled with personal reinvention. She lived in the shadow of her mother and then under the tutelage of her husband; finally she embraced self-reliance during her long widowhood. Fresh, witty and accessible, Queen Victoria is a compelling assessment of Victoria's mercurial character and impact, written with the irony, flourish and insight that this Queen and her rule so richly deserve.
Titolo autorizzato: Queen Victoria: a life of contradictions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-00-820479-9
Formato: Musica
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910149058403321
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