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Há 1 dia · Queen Victoria‘s coronation in 1838 marked the start of one of history‘s most remarkable royal turnarounds. With the crown‘s reputation and relevance at a low point, the young queen seized her chance to prove the monarchy‘s value to a changing Britain. Through her unifying presence, capable leadership, and the moral example of her reign ...
Há 6 dias · Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria (1921) was more critical, but it was discredited in part by mid-20th-century biographers such as Hector Bolitho and Roger Fulford, who, unlike Strachey, had access to Victoria's journal and letters.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey - Free at Loyal Books. Lytton Strachey's first great success, and his most famous achievement, was 'Eminent Victorians' (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the hypocrisy at the centre of ...
17 de mai. de 2024 · When Lytton Strachey used it, no one could mistake its ironic intent. Strachey made no secret of his purpose or his method. ‘ Ordinary history’, he explained in his preface ‘proceeded by the direct method of scrupulous narration’. The historian of the Victorian age had to adopt a ‘subtler strategy’.
Há 3 dias · Queen Victoria, who seldom shrank from argument with her PMs | Conservative Home. May 24, 2024 | Andrew Gimson | Book Reviews. Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History by...
Há 3 dias · The Queen, her biographer and 'not one word of truth'. Date: 24 May 2024. Author: Gabrielle Fields. In November 1839, two years into her reign, Queen Victoria announced her engagement to Prince Albert. The couple had met at Kensington Palace, and Victoria had soon proposed marriage to the handsome man she called 'an angel'.
20 de mai. de 2024 · Victoria (born May 24, 1819, Kensington Palace, London, England—died January 22, 1901, Osborne, near Cowes, Isle of Wight) was the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901).
