Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901. Queens > Great Britain > Biography. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901. |
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- ISBN: 9781250201423
- Physical Description 421 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 25 cm
- Edition First U.S. edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
- Copyright ©2018.
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Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
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Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed to define a socially conservative vision of Victorian womanhood, while also defying its conventions. Beneath her exterior image of traditional daughter, wife, and widow, she was a strong-willed and masterful politician. Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria's correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, difficult queen and the contradictions that defined her. Queen Victoria is an intimate introduction to one of Britain's most iconic rulers as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time.