• Two of British author Giles Lytton Strachey's ground-breaking biographies are in this Kindle ebook: Eminent Victorians & Queen Victoria
Eminent Victorians (1918)
The book consists of biographies of four figures from the Victorian era, told in a witty and insightful style: Cardinal Manning; Florence Nightingale; Thomas Arnold; and General Gordon
Queen Victoria
Her reign of more than 63 is known as the Victorian era. She was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. She inherited the throne aged 18. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840 and had nine children.
About The Author
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880 – 1932) was a British writer and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and he is generally credited with establishing a new form of biography with psychological insight, irreverence and wit.
Eminent Victorians (1918)
The book consists of biographies of four figures from the Victorian era, told in a witty and insightful style: Cardinal Manning; Florence Nightingale; Thomas Arnold; and General Gordon
Queen Victoria
Her reign of more than 63 is known as the Victorian era. She was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death in 1901. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. She inherited the throne aged 18. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840 and had nine children.
About The Author
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880 – 1932) was a British writer and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and he is generally credited with establishing a new form of biography with psychological insight, irreverence and wit.
