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Queen Victoria. , Volume 10. Lytton Strachey. Harcourt, Brace, 1921 - Great Britain - 434 pages. This study of the childhood, marriage, and reign of England's beloved queen reveals a tender but determined woman. Preview this book ».
18 de mai. de 2018 · Almost instantly the postwar era plunged into "anti-Victorianism." The war-weary generation wanted to hear this wholesale assault on past idols. But in his next book, Queen Victoria (1921), Strachey was seduced by his subject. "Mordant irony" was replaced by grudging respect for the queen, even though Strachey felt himself amused by her antics.
David S. Muzzey; Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey, Political Science Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, 1 March 1922, Pages 122–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/21423
It seems only fitting that he should follow up in 1921 with a similarly unsentimental but fair biography of the person at the pinnacle of that era, Queen Victoria herself. Thoroughly researched, with his references documented in hundreds of footnotes, Strachey looks at the life of the young woman who, when she was born, was by no means certain to become the British monarch.
Lytton Strachey. Dora Carrington: Lytton Strachey, 1916, Öl auf Holz (Tafelbild), National Portrait Gallery, London [1] Giles Lytton Strachey [ ˌlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi] (* 1. März 1880 in London; † 21. Januar 1932 in Ham, Wiltshire [2] nahe Hungerford in Berkshire) war ein britischer Biograf, Kritiker und Schriftsteller.
19 de jan. de 2007 · Queen Victoria by Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932. Publication date c1921 Topics Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901, Great Britain -- Kings and rulers ...
Queen Victoria. by Lytton Strachey. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. 8vo, xii + 434 pp. $5.00. HERE is a delicious book. If it were only the triumph of cleverness which it is, its ...
