Called a 'brilliant masterpiece' by The London Times, the classic that changed the style of biographical writing has been re-cast in an elegant gift format. This newly illustrated edition shows the queen and her relations at home and abroad, and Lytton Strachey's magnificent prose describes Victoria's love for Albert, the great men and women of her era, the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the British Empire at its finest moment.
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Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies including Eminent Victorians and Elizabeth and Essex.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Classic narrative destroyed by atrocious editing,
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This review is from: Queen Victoria: An Eminent Illustrated Biography (Hardcover)
This book was sloppily produced. Typographical errors permeate. There are distracting mistakes in some of the captions, too, such as that for a picture of a gray bearded, corpulent Prince of Wales supposedly taken in 1863 when he would have been a man in his early twenties (p. 205). The author -- and his subject -- deserve much better. The publisher deserves a spanking.
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What a waste of money...,
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...on the part of the publisher and author to get something this great in print and fail to have it professionally edited. The cost of the color plates, binding, and printing must have been enormous, and the thing reads like a 6th-grade paper that hasn't been proofed. Pity.
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Wonderfully illustrated, entertaining.,
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This review is from: Queen Victoria: An Eminent Illustrated Biography (Hardcover)
This book is a "must have" for anyone interested in royalty or history in general. It's a lovely book in a scaled down coffee table format.
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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Melbourne, Lord John, Lord Palmerston, King Leopold, Sir Robert, Prince of Wales, Foreign Secretary, Prince Leopold, Duchess of Kent, Queen of England, Buckingham Palace, Prince Albert, Duke of Kent, Lord Derby, Princess Victoria, Duke of Clarence, House of Commons, Duke of Wellington, Lady Flora, Louis Philippe, Princess Royal, John Brown, Royal Highness, Sir James Clark, Sir John Conroy New!
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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lord Melbourne, Lord John, Lord Palmerston, King Leopold, Sir Robert, Prince of Wales, Foreign Secretary, Prince Leopold, Duchess of Kent, Queen of England, Buckingham Palace, Prince Albert, Duke of Kent, Lord Derby, Princess Victoria, Duke of Clarence, House of Commons, Duke of Wellington, Lady Flora, Louis Philippe, Princess Royal, John Brown, Royal Highness, Sir James Clark, Sir John Conroy New!
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- Prince Albert by Robert Rhodes James on page 94, page 181, and page 182
- Crystal Palace (Architecture in Detail) by Joseph Paxton on page 117, and page 121
- Personal and Professional Recollections (A Da Capo Press reprint series in architecture and decorative arts) by George G. Scott in Back Matter
- Constitutional History Of England, The (volume Ii) by Henry Hallam on page 105
- Adam Bede (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot on page 241
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