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4 de mai. de 2010 · Queen Victoria by Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932. Publication date 1921 Topics Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 Publisher New York, Harcourt, Brace ...
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 ».
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.
Giles Lytton Strachey was an early 20th century writer and biographer who developed a reputation for writing biographies that dealt with individuals as people, rather than the events they were associated with. His 1921 biography of the British monarch, Queen Victoria, is a highly readable insight into this long-reigning queen.
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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 ...
27 de abr. de 2011 · Lytton Strachey's biography of Queen Victoria won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for its psychological insight, accuracy and wit. Although one of the first to be written about Victoria, and more reverent and approving than some more modern ones, it offers a sympathetic and affectionate portrait of a complex woman.
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6 de nov. de 2008 · LibriVox recording of Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey. Read by R. S. Steinberg. 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 ...
