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19%OFFLucinda Hawksley - The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria´s Rebellious Daughter - 9781845951542 - 9781845951542
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The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria´s Rebellious Daughter

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Description for The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria´s Rebellious Daughter Paperback. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard facts? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; BGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
`Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories' Observer What was so dangerous about Queen Victoria's artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louise? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded f from public view for years. Louise was a sculptor and painter, friend to the Pre-Raphaelites and a keen member of the Aesthetic movement. The most feisty of the Victorian princesses, she kicked against her mother's controlling nature and remained fiercely loyal to her ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845951542
SKU
9781845951542
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About Lucinda Hawksley
Lucinda Hawksley is a writer and lecturer on art history and nineteenth-century history. She has written biographies of the pre-Raphaelite muse Lizzie Siddal, Charles Dickens, and Katey, one of Dickens' children. She is the great great great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens and is a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

Reviews for The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria´s Rebellious Daughter
Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories of life at the various palaces
Rachel Cooke
Observer
The fullest biography yet of a princess who was friends with Josephine Butler, a feminist and advocate for the health of sex workers, well deserves its place on the shelf
Lucy Worsley
Sunday Express
Lively, engaging ... Read more

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