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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MASLIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES
'Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird's exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch' The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice).
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Baird's portrait of Queen Victoria and her life and times contains much material that is familiar, yet shatters many of the commonly held stereotypes regarding the Queen and the world she lived in. She was a woman of many contradictions: staid and yet passionate; accepting of some positions we would consider terribly chauvinistic, yet surprisingly feminist in others; often conventional, yet making use of both conventional and nonconventional means to navigate the political tensions of her time and to make herself a force to be reckoned with rather than a figurehead. Her influence on the tumultuous politics of the nineteenth…
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