Queen Victoria

by Lytton Strachey

Overview

This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780156027564
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/09/2002
Series:	Harvest Book
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), among the most famous writers of his time, was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies. His Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, inaugurated a new style of biography distinguished by irony, wit, irreverence, and elegance of language. He is also the author of Elizabeth and Essex, Biographical Essays, and Literary Essays.

Table of Contents

I	Antecedents	1
II	Childhood	18
III	Lord Melbourne	52
IV	Marriage	99
V	Lord Palmerston	152
VI	Last Years of Prince Consort	189
VII	Widowhood	222
VIII	Mr. Gladstone and Lord Beaconsfield	245
IX	Old Age	275
X	The End	314
	Bibliography	319
	Index	323

Editorial Reviews

Hilarious social commentary… If all biographies were like Stracheys, they would probably kill off the novel altogether.

Guardian