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A. N. Wilson, Victoria: a Life. New York: Penguin, 2014.
24 x 16 cm, hard cover, dustwrapper, 642 pages, plates.
Fine condition.
A. N. Wilsons Victoria: A Life is a richly written interpretive biography by one of Britains best-known literary historians and biographers. Wilson, the author of major studies of figures from Tolstoy to Dante and of the wider Victorian age itself, brings a wide-ranging historical imagination to Queen Victorias life. Drawing heavily on her diaries and correspondence, he reconstructs not just the public monarchy but the queens intensely private emotional and political world. The result is a highly readable, intellectually ambitious portrait of Victoria shaped by one of the most experienced narrative biographers working on the nineteenth century.
Kathryn Hughes wrote in The Guardian of Wilson's biography of Queen Victoria, Victoria: A Life: "Subtle, thoughtful ... a shimmering and rather wonderful biography."
Daisy Goodwin in The Sunday Times review wrote: "This won't be the last biography of Victoria but it is certainly the most interesting and original in a long time."
