Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey (sites to read books for free TXT) 📕
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The publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 was a tremendous success. In it, Strachey looked at four iconic figures of the Victorian Age and punctured the hagiographical illusions surrounding them. It seems only fitting that he should follow up in 1921 with a similarly unsentimental but fair biography of the person at the pinnacle of that era, Queen Victoria herself.
Thoroughly researched, with his references documented in hundreds of footnotes, Strachey looks at the life of the young woman who, when she was born, was by no means certain to become the British monarch. He also spends considerable time on her consort, Prince Albert, who, in Strachey’s telling, develops from a careless youth to becoming a truly remarkable and effective figure in British society, while continuing to be generally perceived as an outsider.
Strachey’s sardonic and witty style makes this account of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert an entertaining and very informative read.
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The Greville Memoirs, VI, 248. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, III, 331; VI, 254; Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon, III, 12: “March 1, 1835. Called on Lord Melbourne, and found him reading the Acts, with a quarto Greek Testament that belonged to Samuel Johnson.” ↩
The Greville Memoirs, III, 142; Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne by W. M. Torrens, 545. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 148; Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne by W. M. Torrens, 278, 431, 517; The Greville Memoirs, IV, 331; VIII, 162. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, VI, 253–4; Memoirs of William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne by W. M. Torrens, 354. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, IV, 135, 154; The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, 1, 249. ↩
The Creevey Papers Edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 326. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 203. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 206. ↩
Queen Victoria: A Biography by Sidney Lee, 79–81. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 3. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 29. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 100. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 57, 256. ↩
Queen Victoria: A Biography by Sidney Lee, 71. ↩
The Duke of Bedford told Greville he was “sure there was a battle between her and Melbourne … He is sure there was one about the men’s sitting after dinner, for he heard her say to him rather angrily, ‘it is a horrid custom-’ but when the ladies left the room (he dined there) directions were given that the men should remain five minutes longer.” The Greville Memoirs, February 26, 1840 (unpublished). ↩
The Greville Memoirs, March 11, 1838. (Unpublished) ↩
The Greville Memoirs, IV, 152–3. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 265–6. ↩
The Autobiography of Harriet Martineau, II, 119–20; The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 121–2. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 229. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 356–64; Autobiographical Recollections by the late Charles Robert Leslie, R.A. edited by Tom Taylor, II, 239. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 79. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 80; The Greville Memoirs, IV, 22. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, I, 85–6; The Greville Memoirs, IV, 16. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 93. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 93–5. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 116. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 117–20. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 134. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 134–6, 140. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 154. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 185. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, IV, 16–17; Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 163–4. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, IV, 178, and August 15, 1839 (unpublished). ↩
“Nobody cares for the Queen, her popularity has sunk to zero, and loyalty is a dead letter.” The Greville Memoirs, March 25, 1839; Morning Post, September 14, 1839. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, August 15, 1839 (unpublished). ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 254. ↩
The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, I, 324. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, August 4, 1841 (unpublished); The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, II, 154, 162. ↩
The exclamation “They wished to treat me like a girl, but I will show them that I am Queen of England!” often quoted as the Queen’s, is apocryphal. It is merely part of Greville’s summary of the two letters to Melbourne, printed in The Letters of Queen Victoria, 162 and 163. It may be noted that the phrase “the Queen of England will not submit to such trickery” is omitted in The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount Esher, 169; and in general there are numerous verbal discrepancies between the versions of the journal and the letters in the two books. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, June 7, June 10, June 15, August 15, 1839 (unpublished). ↩
The Greville Memoirs, June 24 and July 7, 1839 (unpublished); Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 222. ↩
The Greville Memoirs, VI, 251–2.
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