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    Victoria: A Life

    By A. N. Wilson

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    'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have said so. What emerged for me was a brave, original woman who was at the very epicentre of Britain's changing place in the world: a solitary woman in an all-male world who understood politics and foreign policy much better than some of her ministers; a person possessed by demons, but demons which she was brave enough to conquer. Above all, I became aware, when considering her eccentric friendships and deep passions, of what a loveable person she was.' A. N. Wilson
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateSep 4, 2014
    ISBN9781782393443
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    Victoria: A Life
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    A. N. Wilson

    A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire, England, and was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.

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    • 4/5
      I'd thought I'd read this on the back of the TV series of Victoria, and despite, some political bits which I couldn't get to grips with and Victoria's numerous children and children who married into other dynasties, which I got confused with, this was a fantastic read. It was a totally different world then, and the book was a real page turner.
    • 4/5
      Eye opening tale of Queen Vic and her progeny and the marriages they made throughout Europe. Everyone was related to everyone else. Queen Vic ruled from 1837-1931 and actually had a love" but arranged marriage. Both were German by birth. "Victoria went on to chart a unique course for her country even as she became the matriarch of nearly every great dynasty of Europe."
    • 4/5
      A good, informative and entertaining audiobook on this colossus of a figure from the nineteenth-century.
    • 4/5
      The technical term for this book is “big honkin’ biography.” It’s a book I’m reading for a non-fiction book discussion group that meets mid-month. I’ve talked to a few others who are reading it and they’re complaining about all the NAMES to remember. I decided to not worry about remembering names and found it a pretty easy read. The important names come up again and again and it’s easy to remember just those. I’ve read books and taken classes about the Victorian era, so I was generally familiar with an outline of Victoria’s life. Today, a psychiatrist would have a field day analyzing Victoria’s neuroses. Start with a woman who suffers post-partum depression, then has nine children. Talk about a breeding ground for mental illness. Poor thing! The book has all the right ingredients: family tree, notes, bibliography and index (although the notes seem pretty puny to me). My only complaint is the use of untranslated French phrases and sentences throughout. For readers who don’t know French, they’re nothing but stumbling blocks. (Oddly, the author translates most German phrases – for me, German is a bit easier to decipher because of a college German class a long time ago.)That said, I found the book fascinating and easier to read than it appears at a glance.