Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey
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Description
Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey, was published in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1921. It tells the Queen's life in ten chapters. They run from Antecedents and Childhood through Lord Melbourne, Marriage, and Lord Palmerston. They end with Widowhood, Old Age, and The End. A bibliography closes the book.
Chapter one opens with a death: on November 6, 1817, the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent and heir to the crown, died young. Strachey sketches her unhappy, impulsive life, her broken engagement to the Prince of Orange, her love for Prince Augustus of Prussia, and the arrival of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg in London.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lytton Strachey |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 509 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |