Binding is splitting throughout the 34 pages of illustrations. Dust cover is lightly discolored from age and shows shelf wear and a bit of tearing. Rendered with affection and respect, Elizabeth Longford's full, frank portrait reveals Victoria as a fascinating and complicated woman - a woman of diminutive stature but superabundant temperament.Ĭondition: Used.
In writing it, Elizabeth Longford had unrestricted access to the Royal Archives and has drawn on unpublished passages from Queen Victoria's celebrated Journals, as well as from many private collections, material previously unavailable to biographers. Victoria and Albert, Gladstone and Disraeli, John Brown and the Munshi - a whole galaxy of notable personalities stand forth as colorful individuals, freshly assessed.įirst published in 1964, this study of the Queen is the classic biography of Victoria. But impelled by her iron sense of duty, the secluded widow emerges at last to rule her vast Empire as a mother, and her large, high-spirited family as a Queen. This brilliant and perceptive biography shows the young Victoria tormented by an unhappy childhood, enraptured by a love match, tantalized by a brief marriage, then driven into a long retirement by the death of Albert, her Prince Consort.
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