Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
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Lucy Worsley
Discover the extraordinary life of Queen Victoria through the 24 most pivotal days that shaped her reign and redefined an era.A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life, Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed to define a socially conservative vision of Victorian womanhood, while also defying its conventions. Beneath her exterior image of traditional daughter, wife, and widow, she was a strong-willed and masterful politician.Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria's correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, complex queen and the contradictions that defined her. Queen Victoria is an intimate introduction to one of Britain's most iconic rulers as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time.
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Author
Lucy Worsley
Pages
288
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-01-08
ISBN
1250201438 9781250201430
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"Really good audiobook about one of the most important women and monarchs in history. I was familiar with the author from the many documentaries that she hosts on PBS and that familiarity helped me with the cadence and writing style of this book. I liked how instead of the typical style of cradle to grave (including every minute detail of Queen Victoria’s life), we got little vignettes in her life that were important (ie. the “baby race”, her wedding, Prince Albert’s premature death, John Brown, etc). I also really enjoyed the narrator (Lucy Paterson) and the way she did the different voices/accents of the time period (especially the German accents of Victoria’s mother and Prince Albert). I will definitely check out more books from this author in the future because I think she just knows how to make boring historical facts interesting and exciting to read about."
Erin Smith