Queen Victoria

by Lytton Strachey

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Penguin Books, 1971. Paperback. Very good. Light shelf wear & small crease on cover. 3 spine creases, clean text. Book Description 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. ISBN: 0140183930.

Book summary

Strachey's definitive and ground-breaking biography of the queen who was hailed as the mother of her people and a symbol of imperial greatness. Strachey's biography was perhaps the first of that genre to look behind the facts and penetrate to the psychological truths about his subject.