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28%OFFChristopher Hibbert - Queen Victoria a Personal History - 9780006388432 - V9780006388432
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Queen Victoria a Personal History

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Description for Queen Victoria a Personal History Paperback. Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 b/w, 16 col plates (32pp). BIC Classification: BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 446.

Christopher Hibbert’s acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.

In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen – and later Empress of India – for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change. Her era became synonymous with moral rigidity and colonial expansion, and this absorbing biography of Queen Victoria, the unlikely figurehead of a vast and powerful ... Read more

Embracing her life and family, her politics and personality, her love for Prince Albert and her relationship with John Brown, Hibbert’s touching biography is a persuasive portrait of a remarkable woman.

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Product Details

Publisher
Harpercollins Pb
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006388432
SKU
V9780006388432
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About Christopher Hibbert
Christopher Hibbert was educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. He served as an infantry officer during the war, was twice wounded and was awarded the MC in 1945. His books include ‘The Destruction of Lord Raglan’ (which won the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962), ‘The English: A Social History’, ‘Cavaliers and Roundheads’ and ‘The Great Mutiny: India, 1857’. ... Read more

Reviews for Queen Victoria a Personal History
‘This book is, I think, his masterpiece…he has portrayed her as physically and imaginatively passionate, a loveable monster who, for all her extreme oddness, came to embody the aspirations and character not only of a nation, but of an Empire which embraced half the globe.’ A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail ... Read more

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