Queen Victoria

Name: Queen Victoria
Author: Lytton Strachey

by Lytton Strachey

Psychologically penetrating biography of Britain's longest-reigning monarch

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Lytton Strachey

Strachey invented the modern satirical biography with Eminent Victorians, deflating four Victorian heroes with ironic concision and psychological intuition. He transformed biography from memorial to critical art.

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