Queen Victoria - Strachey, Lytton
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"This enchanting volume is not a history of the Victorian age but the portraiture of a woman... Strachey's work is pure art...a narrative as fresh and distinctive as some delicious perfume." -David Muzzey, Political Science Quarterly, (1922) Queen Victoria (1921) is the classic biography of Britain's greatest monarch by Lytton Strachey. Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. In addition, she was Empress of India beginning in 1876. With her reign of 63 years, she gave her name to an era, the Victorian age. This was a period…mehr

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"This enchanting volume is not a history of the Victorian age but the portraiture of a woman... Strachey's work is pure art...a narrative as fresh and distinctive as some delicious perfume." -David Muzzey, Political Science Quarterly, (1922) Queen Victoria (1921) is the classic biography of Britain's greatest monarch by Lytton Strachey. Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. In addition, she was Empress of India beginning in 1876. With her reign of 63 years, she gave her name to an era, the Victorian age. This was a period of expansion of the British Empire, and industrial, scientific, political, cultural, and military change. Queen Victoria was awarded the "James Tait Black Memorial Prize," one of Britain's oldest literary awards.
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English author and reviewer Giles Lytton Strachey was born on March 1, 1880, and died on January 21, 1932. He created a new type of biography that combines psychological understanding and sympathy with sarcasm and wit. He was one of the founders of the Bloomsbury Group and wrote Eminent Victorians. The James Tait Black Memorial Prize was given to his book Queen Victoria (1921). On March 1, 1880, Strachey was born at Stowey House in Clapham Common, London. He was the fifth son and eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey, an officer in the British colonial armed forces, and his second wife, Jane Grant, who became a leading supporter of women's right to vote. The name "Giles Lytton" came from a Gyles Strachey from the early 1600s and the first Earl of Lytton, who was friends with Richard Strachey when he was Viceroy of India in the late 1870s. Another person who was Lytton Strachey's uncle was the Earl of Lytton. There were thirteen children born to the Stracheys. Ten of them lived to adults, including Lytton's sister Dorothy Strachey and his youngest brother, the psychoanalyst James Strachey.