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Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life / Lucy Worsley.

by Worsley, Lucy, author.

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New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901.

Queens -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.

9781250201423 (hardcover) :

125020142X (hardcover) :

421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, portraits ; 25 cm

First U.S. edition.

Introduction -- A naughty daughter -- The good wife -- The widow of Windsor.

"A passionate princess, an astute and clever queen, and a cunning widow, Victoria played many roles throughout her life. In [this book], Lucy Worsley introduces her as a woman leading a truly extraordinary life in a unique time period. Queen Victoria simultaneously managed to define a socially conservative vision of Victorian womanhood, while also defying its conventions. Beneath her exterior image of traditional daughter, wife, and widow, she was a strong-willed and masterful politician. Drawing from the vast collection of Victoria's correspondence and the rich documentation of her life, Worsley recreates twenty-four of the most important days in Victoria's life. Each day gives a glimpse into the identity of this powerful, difficult queen and the contradictions that defined her. [This] is an intimate introduction to one of Britain's most iconic rulers as a wife and widow, mother and matriarch, and above all, a woman of her time."--Dust jacket.

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