Similar Products

The Queen - by Matthew Dennison (Hardcover)

< 3 ay

Target35.49 USD

The Last Princess - by Matthew Dennison (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target18.59 USD

The Man in the Willows - by Matthew Dennison (Hardcover)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Queen Victoria - by Christopher Hibbert (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Victoria: The Queen - by Julia Baird (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Queen Victoria - by G a Henty (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

King's Cage - (Red Queen) by Victoria Aveyard (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Queen Victoria - (Harvest Book) by Lytton Strachey (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target18.95 USD

Red Queen (Hardcover) by Victoria Aveyard

< 3 ay

Target USD

Internal Tech Conferences - by Victoria Morgan-Smith & Matthew Skelton (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Load more

Products of same category from the store

Off Ramp: God's Exit from Abuse, 3 - by Deborah Silva (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Selling the Invisible - by Harry Beckwith (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target15.39 USD

Hot Rod Body and Chassis Builder's Guide - (Motorbooks Workshop) by Dennis W Parks (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target25.99 USD

A Whale Hunt - by Robert Sullivan (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Adonis Complex - by Harrison G Pope & Roberto Olivardia & Katherine A Phillips (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards - by Jay Feldman (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The Writing of Fiction - by Edith Wharton (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

The First Air War - by Lee Kennett (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Lead . . . for God's Sake! - by Todd Gongwer (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Mission - by Ash Dykes (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Darwin Devolves - by Michael J Behe (Paperback)

< 3 ay

Target USD

Product info

<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"First published in Great Britain by William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name. <p/>Victoria embraced photography, railway travel and modern art; she resisted compulsory education for the working classes, recommended for a leading women's rights campaigner 'a good whipping' and detested smoking. She may or may not have been amused. <p/>Meanwhile she reinvented the monarchy and wrestled with personal reinvention. She lived in the shadow of her mother and then under the tutelage of her husband; finally she embraced self-reliance during her long widowhood. Fresh, witty and accessible, Matthew Dennison's <i>Queen Victoria</i> is a compelling assessment of Victoria's mercurial character and impact, written with the irony, flourish and insight that this Queen and her rule so richly deserve.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Dennison constructs a remarkable portrait of the queen." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/>"A judicious but lively biography of the highly un-Victorian Queen Victoria...this is an insightful, short look at the life of an inmortal if only sometime-admirable queen" --<i>Kirkus</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of the critically acclaimed <i>The Last Princess </i>and<i> Livia, Empress of Rome</i>. As a journalist, he contributes to <i>The Times</i>, <i>The Daily Telegraph</i>, <i>Country Life</i>, and <i>The Spectator</i>. He is married and lives in London and North Wales.</p>

Price History