Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions
A Nonfiction, Biography, Historical book. Oh, Victoria and Albert are really something to admire, aren't they? Even in death...
Queen 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, Matthew Dennison's 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.
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- ISBN: 9781250048899 / 0
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Oh, Victoria and Albert are really something to admire, aren't they? Even in death they are together, and Victoria's dying words were, of course, "Oh, Albert..." Clear, concise information about Queen Victoria's life and her personality. This book does not get into politics, just Victoria as a person. Short and informative. There wasn't anything too special about this. A lot of the book seems to be made up of a collection of other people's work on Victoria and extracts from her diary rather than the author's own original work which is disappointing and doesn't really work that well, though the information is interesting. This book should have either been...
