QUEEN VICTORIA: daughter, wife, mother, and widow

✍ Scribed by Queen of Great Britain Victoria;WORSLEY, LUCY

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain,Great Britain., Place of publication not identified
• ISBN: 1250201438

✦ Synopsis

The story of the queen who defied convention and defined an era

Perhaps one of the best known of the English monarchs, Queen Victoria forever shaped a chapter of English history, bequeathing her name to the Victorian age. In Queen Victoria, Lucy Worsley introduces this iconic woman in a new light. Going beyond an exploration of the Queen merely as a monarch, Worsley considers Victoria as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. The book is structured around the various roles that Victoria inhabited— a daughter raised to wield power, a loving but tempestuous wife, a controlling mother, and a cunning widow—all while wearing the royal crown.

Far from a proto-feminist, Queen Victoria was socially conservative and never supported women's rights. And yet, Victoria thwarted the strict rules of womanhood that defined the era to which she gave her name. She was passionate, selfish, and moody, boldly defying the will of...
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✦ Subjects

Great Britain