Victoria the Queen : An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

from ClareRhoden

Victoria the Queen is a wonderful book, if a very hefty read (it is brick-sized!). Baird has performed miracles with the royal archives, and courageously resisted their desire to control information even from sources outside their control. Having studied this period previously, there were section...

from PhilSyphe

This lengthy tome is a thorough account of Queen Victoria's private and public life. Excerpts from Victoria's letters are particularly interesting. Sometimes she comes across as selfish and self-pitying, while her low opinions of some of her children (usually because of their looks) is unnatura...

from PaperDollLady

A balanced biography, blending the personal and public sides of Queen Victoria in an insightful and interesting way. Particularly useful, the book's front matter helped its reader by including Victoria's Family Tree, illustrated maps of the changing European landscape during Victoria's reign, plu...

from maryreinert

Victoria was eighteen years when she ascended the throne of England at a time when women were considered property of their husbands and their sole purpose was to bare children. Raised by a loving, but ambitious mother, Victoria was a head strong child who learned how to get her way early in life....

from nhalliwell

I recently reviewed another book on Queen Victoria. It was historical fiction by Daisy Goodwin. In the review I commented that I was left though with a hunger for more. Julia Baird's Victoria: The Queen satisfied that hunger. It was a very readable and enjoyable non-fiction that covers Victoria f...