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Queen Victoria de Elizabeth Longford
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Queen Victoria (edició 2005)

de Elizabeth Longford (Autor)

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Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognised as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen Victoria's life and provides her unique assessment of the monarch. David Cannandine hailed her Victoria RI as 'pre-eminent in the genre...the commissed biography that the great Queen never got'. Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the death of her uncle William IV. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and for the next twenty years they were inseperable. Their descendants were to succeed to most of the thrones of Europe. When Albert died in 1861, Victoria's overwhelming grief meant that she virtually withdrew from public life. This perceived dereliction of her duty, coupled with rumours about her relationship with her Scottish ghillie John Brown, led to increasing criticism. Coaxed back into the public eye by Disraeli, she resumed her former enthusiasm for political and constitutional matters with vigour until her death in 1901.… (més)
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Títol:Queen Victoria
Autors:Elizabeth Longford (Autor)
Informació:The History Press (2005), 128 pages
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Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed de Elizabeth Longford

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While I prefer Julia Baird's more recent biography, this older biography of Queen Victoria nevertheless manages to capture much about the iconic British queen. I particularly appreciated the author's note that Victoria was somewhat behind her own times on women's issues, but ahead of her times on racial issues. Towards the end of her life, Victoria brought several Indian attendants into her household (Abdul Karim is the most famous), to the displeasure of her children and ministers. She also survived multiple attempts on her life, kept a close eye on Parliamentary politics, and made matches for her children and grandchildren across Europe. Several times while I reading this, I thought of one of her descendants, who has a similar story of a long reign that spans the better part of a century. I would recommend this biography for those seeking to better understand Queen Victoria both as a person and as a monarch. ( )
  wagner.sarah35 | Oct 17, 2022 |
Longford assumes some fluency with nineteenth-century British government and politics, as well as the ability to keep straight the membership of several royal houses, so it's tough sledding at times. Overall not quite the Victoria biography I'd been looking for, but it's well-researched and I learned a lot. ( )
  LudieGrace | Aug 10, 2020 |
Very comprehensive, almost unncessarily so. Managed to keep my interest even during dry discussions of Home Rule. ( )
  CatherineJay | Dec 30, 2015 |
Thankfully, this was a short book. I felt like I was drop-kicked right into British history. I didn't understand much of what went on because so much of the book wasn't about Victoria but the politics during her reign. If your English, then this might be more beneficial, but with my sketchy knowledge of English political history, this wasn't as helpful as I wished it to be. ( )
  hobbitprincess | Jan 21, 2013 |
864 Queen Victoria Born to Succeed, by Elizabeth Longford (read 18 Aug 1966) I finished this book and was mightily impressed by the sweep and majesty of the past--by the changes between 1819 and 1901, and between 1837 and 1901. I read a biography of Queen Victoria, and of her daughters, previously, and was dismayed I remembered so little of those books: until a check showed I read them in July of 1945--over 21 years ago, when I was only 16. I was struck by the poignancy of the deathbed scene: "At intervals the two clergymen prayed aloud....As the frosty darkness began to fall about 4 o'clock another bulletin was issued: 'The queen is slowly sinking'... Around the bed stood her children and grandchildren....As the end drew near the appealing voices fell silent. Then came a great change of look...and complete calmness. She died just after half past 6."
"Life's dream is past,
All its sin, its sadness.
Brightly at last,
Dawns a day of gladness." [Tennyson} ( )
  Schmerguls | May 30, 2010 |
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Queen Victoria is the longest-reigning monarch in British history. In this concise biography, Lady Longford, long recognised as an authority on the subject, gives a full account of Queen Victoria's life and provides her unique assessment of the monarch. David Cannandine hailed her Victoria RI as 'pre-eminent in the genre...the commissed biography that the great Queen never got'. Victoria ascended the throne in 1837 on the death of her uncle William IV. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and for the next twenty years they were inseperable. Their descendants were to succeed to most of the thrones of Europe. When Albert died in 1861, Victoria's overwhelming grief meant that she virtually withdrew from public life. This perceived dereliction of her duty, coupled with rumours about her relationship with her Scottish ghillie John Brown, led to increasing criticism. Coaxed back into the public eye by Disraeli, she resumed her former enthusiasm for political and constitutional matters with vigour until her death in 1901.

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