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Victoria: A Life by A.N. Wilson

March 24, 2015

VictoriaVictoria: A Life by A.N. Wilson

A.N. Wilson’s biography of Queen Victoria doesn’t break any new ground, but it is a readable and often witty account of the complicated Queen.

WHAT OTHER REVIEWERS THINK:

The New York Times: “To survey the political history of the world’s most powerful empire while also doing justice to the inner life of a short, stout mother and grandmother is a tall order. That Wilson succeeds testifies to an ability he shares with Victorian writers like Dickens and George Eliot: to make readers sympathize with the heroine despite, or even because of, her very human foibles.”

WHO WROTE IT

A. N. Wilson is the author of biographies on Jesus, Milton, Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis and Dante. His acclaimed histories, The Victorians and God’s Funeral, have made him an authority on Victorian-era Great Britain. A former columnist for the London Evening Standard, he now contributes to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, the Spectator, the Observer and the Daily Mail. 

I also highly recommend An Uncommon Woman, Hannah Pakula’s biography of Victoria and Albert’s oldest child, Vicky, The Empress Frederick, wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, and mother of Kaiser Wilhelm.

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