Queen Victoria: A Personal History

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Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen -- and later Empress of India -- for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change. Her era became synonymous with moral rigidity and colonial expansion, and this absorbing biography of Queen Victoria, the unlikely figurehead of a vast and powerful empire, explores how the young monarch transformed herself into a formidable matriarch and the epitome of an age. Embracing her life and family, her politics and personality, her love for Prince Albert and her relationship with John Brown, Hibbert's touching biography is a persuasive portrait of a remarkable woman.

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Published
03/09/2001

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

ISBN
9780006388432

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Hibbert, author of several distinguished biographies and histories, now turns his attentions to Queen Victoria whose reign spanned the years 1837-1901. Such a subject demands a comprehensive study and this one does not disappoint, incorporating lengthy extracts from the queen's own journals in order to balance the narrative appraisal. Victoria was a dedicated diarist and her regular jottings are useful in providing an informative portrait of her long and influential reign, which witnessed enormous changes, from the advent of the railway to the birth of the motor car. Hibbert's is a scholarly, exhaustive account of a remarkable monarch, tracing the course of her reign from the early days when she ascended the throne as a girl of 18 through the happy days of her marriage to Prince Albert and finally to the last decades of her life when she consolidated her earlier triumphs. Showing signs of scrupulous research, every aspect of Victoria's life comes under minute scrutiny here, and whilst sometimes a little more elan in such a volume would be welcome, this remains an admirably thorough biography. (Kirkus UK)