Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
A new edition of the classic 1964 biography of Queen Victoria, reissued for the 200th anniversary of her birth.
It is hard to imagine how Lady Longford's detailed and vivid volume could have been bettered. . scholarly yet racily readable, witty yet wise * Sunday Times *
Gives us more than the general reader has ever had, revealing the Queen as a character at once simple & complex, humble & authoritarian * Daily Telegraph *
So sanely and attractively written with each episode blending so easily into the next that the reader is soon carried along in fascination * Financial Times *
[Queen Victoria] has in Lady L. her fullest and best-informed, most sensible and sympathetic biographer * The Times *
A full, authoritative study -- Jane Ridley * The Spectator *
Dazzlingly readable, and very enjoyable -- Stella Gibbons
Very few biographies which have reached the public in recent years can have as good a claim to be called "definitive" as has Elizabeth Longford's life of Queen Victoria * New York Books *
Longford has brought Queen Victoria to life again, and presents to a new generation of readers one of the most truly remarkable personalities of history with scrupulous care, fidelity and wit * The Spectator *
One of the best I have ever read -- Noel Coward
Gives us more than the general reader has ever had, revealing the Queen as a character at once simple & complex, humble & authoritarian * Daily Telegraph *
So sanely and attractively written with each episode blending so easily into the next that the reader is soon carried along in fascination * Financial Times *
[Queen Victoria] has in Lady L. her fullest and best-informed, most sensible and sympathetic biographer * The Times *
A full, authoritative study -- Jane Ridley * The Spectator *
Dazzlingly readable, and very enjoyable -- Stella Gibbons
Very few biographies which have reached the public in recent years can have as good a claim to be called "definitive" as has Elizabeth Longford's life of Queen Victoria * New York Books *
Longford has brought Queen Victoria to life again, and presents to a new generation of readers one of the most truly remarkable personalities of history with scrupulous care, fidelity and wit * The Spectator *
One of the best I have ever read -- Noel Coward
Elizabeth Pakenham CBE (otherwise known as Elizabeth Longford) was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a lifelong socialist, and the author of several hugely acclaimed biographies. She wrote a celebrated two-volume biography of Wellington, and biographies of Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. Victoria was her second book.
She had eight children with her husband Frank Pakenham, among them historians Lady Antonia Fraser and Thomas Pakenham. She died on 23 October 2002.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474608756 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474608752 |
| Title | Queen Victoria |
| Author | Elizabeth Longford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2019-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 720 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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