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    Victoria of England

    By Edith Sitwell

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    A lively, opinionated biography of the queen, and a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century England, from a literary icon.
     
    ‘You call me the little Queen,’ she told her uncle the King of the Belgians; ‘my body is little, but my heart is not.’
     
    Edith Sitwell’s endearing portrait of the young Victoria chronicles her unlikely ascension to the throne: spanning the succession crisis of King George III, her enduring love and marriage to Prince Albert, and her strength and power in a male-dominated world.
     
    Weaving in Victoria’s personal letters and diaries, Sitwell breathes life into the queen’s relationships with her family and her court. A rich exploration of Victoria’s reign and a social document of Victorian Britain, Victoria of England vividly illustrates the life of the iconic monarch with insight and emotion.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 11, 2018
    ISBN9781504059596
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    Edith Sitwell

    Edith Sitwell was born in 1887 into an aristocratic family and, along with her brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, had a significant impact on the artistic life of the 20s. She encountered the work of the French symbolists, Rimbaud in particular, early in her writing life and became a champion of the modernist movement, editing six editions of the controversial magazine Wheels. She remained a crusading force against philistinism and conservatism throughout her life and her legacy lies as much in her unstinting support of other artists as it does in her own poetry. Sitwell died in 1964.

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    • 2/5
      A biography of the famous monarch. I think Edith Sitwell had some family connection, and was certainly familiar with some parts of the Royal environment. I did not find this the best biography of Victoria I have read. There is a small amount of the international situation from time to time.