Queen Victoria  -  Christopher Hibbert

A Personal History

KORTE INHOUD

In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, paints a fresh and intimate portrait of the woman who shaped a century. His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular imagination -- she is also often shy, diffident, and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often censorious when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be passionately sensual, em...
2001 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2001 Uitgever: Da Capo Press 464 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0306810859 ISBN-13: 9780306810855