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Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey

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Queen Victoria | Lytton Strachey
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Book Overview: 

Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was “Eminent Victorians” (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the hypocrisy at the center of Victorian morality. This work was followed in the same style by “Queen Victoria” (1921). (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I>.' For the rest, in the crisis that was approaching, she was not to be alarmed, but to trust in her 'good natural sense and the truth' of her character; she was to do nothing in a hurry; to hurt no one's amour-propre, and to continue her confidence in the Whig administration.[50] Not content with letters, however, King Leopold determined that the Princess should not lack personal guidance, and sent over to her aid the trusted friend whom, twenty years before, he had taken to his heart by the death-bed at Claremont. Thus, once again, as if in accordance with some preordained destiny, the figure of Stockmar is discernible—inevitably present at a momentous hour.

On June 18, the King was visibly sinking. The Archbishop of Canterbury was by his side, with all the comforts of the church. Nor did the holy words fall upon a rebellious spirit; for many years his Majesty had been a devout believer. 'When I was a young man,' he once explained at a publi. . . Read More

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- Paul - May 27, 2012

This is not in Lytton Strachey's crafty and mordant biography but he would have seen this and smirked his head off. When Queen Victoria got married, the joke going round the gentlemen's clubs of Mayfair was about the honeymoon train. It would be setting out from Waterloo, passing through Virginia Wa

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- Encarni - Apr 15, 2022

La narración es buena, no conocía la vida de la reina Victoria , aquí el autor la retrata muy bien, no solo su personalidad, sino también a su familia, y a su querido marido Alberto. Una reina que se ganó el hastío y también el cariño de sus súbditos en distintas épocas. Este es un buen libro para c

3.00
- La pecera de Raquel - Apr 10, 2022

Leída en el club de lectura de la pecera.

Es una biografía muy interesante de la reina Victoria, amena, fácil de leer, sencilla, para una primera toma de contacto está bien, pero sin más, se queda muy en la superficie.
Nos muestra a una reina perfecta, que magnifica, idolatra y casi santifica, con un

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