Serving Victoria by Kate Hubbard
During the sixty-odd years of her reign Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. This book follows the lives of six members of her household from the governess to the royal children, to her maid-of-honour, chaplain and personal physician.
Kate Hubbard's entertaining book…is a fine examination of both the bizarre and the banal in the domestic machinery of Victoria's court * Observer *
Hubbard would have made a good courtier: her prose is polite, her insight into the tangled relationships of the household impressiveHer achievement is to enter a sealed world, ruled by repetition, and make it compelling (5 stars) * Telegraph *
Hubbard can be delightfully waspish about life at court, and has produced from the most unpromising of raw material a book that is both eye-opening and thoroughly engaging * Sunday Times *
Entertaining account of the royal household…the change of perspective brought about by taking such figures out of the background and into the spotlight is revelatory * Country Life *
Entertaining portrait of Queen Victoria...having plundered a rich vein of fascinating and often new information, Hubbard shows that serving Victoria was no doddle -- Val Hennessey * Daily Mail *
Hubbard would have made a good courtier: her prose is polite, her insight into the tangled relationships of the household impressiveHer achievement is to enter a sealed world, ruled by repetition, and make it compelling (5 stars) * Telegraph *
Hubbard can be delightfully waspish about life at court, and has produced from the most unpromising of raw material a book that is both eye-opening and thoroughly engaging * Sunday Times *
Entertaining account of the royal household…the change of perspective brought about by taking such figures out of the background and into the spotlight is revelatory * Country Life *
Entertaining portrait of Queen Victoria...having plundered a rich vein of fascinating and often new information, Hubbard shows that serving Victoria was no doddle -- Val Hennessey * Daily Mail *
After leaving Oxford University Kate Hubbard worked variously as a researcher, a teacher, a book reviewer and a publisher's reader. She currently works as a freelance editor. Her first book, A Material Girl: Bess of Hardwick 1527-1608, was published in 2001, followed by two children's books - biographies of Charlotte Bronte and Queen Victoria. Her most recent book, Rubies in the Snow, is the fictionalised diary of Anastasia Romanov, youngest daughter of Russia's last Tsar. Kate divides her time between London and Dorset.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701183684 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701183683 |
| Title | Serving Victoria |
| Author | Kate Hubbard |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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