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Queen Victoria: a Life Of Contradictions
[Paperback - 2014]
matthew dennison
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Publisher: William Collins Uk | ISBN: 9780007504558 | Pages: 208
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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.


Reigning over a lifetime, Queen Victoria embodied the spirit of the contradictory era to which she lent her name. She championed modern art and photography but resisted education for the working classes and woman s suffrage; she advocated cultural imperialism, tempered by imperial compassion; in her deference to her husband Prince Albert and her protracted mourning of his death, she combined wifely submission with regal obstinacy.


Original and accessible, Queen Victoria is a compelling assessment of the ruler s mercurial character, her key relationships and her impact on her own age and beyond.

About the Author

Matthew Dennison is the author of seven critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West , a Book of the Year in The Times, Spectator, Independent and Observer. His most recent book is Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter . He is a contributor to Country Life and Telegraph.

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