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Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Queen Victoria - Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Author:Lytton Strachey Lytton Strachey, the brilliant Cambridge graduate who revolutionized the art of biography, grew up in Victoria's reign. He was not one of her sympathetic subjects. Thus, when this biography appeared, it was unsurprisingly irreverent. What surprised was its sympathy. In spite of himself, Strachey was compassionate toward the young Victoria, a ... more »sheltered girl who at 18 ascended the throne of a violent and unstable England. Strachey analyzes Victoria's girlhood, her marriage to and obsession with Albert, her survival and triumph. By never forgetting her duty, Victoria became first a competent monarch, later an adored symbol of the empire.« less