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Book SynopsisA new edition of the classic 1964 biography of Queen Victoria, reissued for the 200th anniversary of her birth.Trade ReviewIt is hard to imagine how Lady Longford's detailed and vivid volume could have been bettered . . . scholarly yet racily readable, witty yet wise * Sunday Times *
Gives us more than the general reader has ever had, revealing the Queen as a character at once simple & complex, humble & authoritarian * Daily Telegraph *
So sanely and attractively written with each episode blending so easily into the next that the reader is soon carried along in fascination * Financial Times *
[Queen Victoria] has in Lady L. her fullest and best-informed, most sensible and sympathetic biographer * The Times *
A full, authoritative study -- Jane Ridley * The Spectator *
Dazzlingly readable, and very enjoyable -- Stella Gibbons
Very few biographies which have reached the public in recent years can have as good a claim to be called "definitive" as has Elizabeth Longford's life of Queen Victoria * New York Books *
Longford has brought Queen Victoria to life again, and presents to a new generation of readers one of the most truly remarkable personalities of history with scrupulous care, fidelity and wit * The Spectator *
One of the best I have ever read -- Noel Coward
