Serving Victoria : Life in the Royal Household

ISBN-13: 9780099532231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str.

Kate Hubbard

Opis

During the sixty-odd years of her reign, Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. Sitting squarely at its centre is Victoria, and through the eyes of her household, this title reveals a Queen who is more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish and more comical than is generally supposed.

Recenzje

Entertaining...compellingly vivid... A fine examination of both the bizarre and the banal in the domestic machinery of Victoria's court Observer

O autorze

Kate Hubbard has worked variously as a researcher, teacher, publisher's reader, freelance editor and book reviewer. She currently works for the Royal Literary Fund as a Royal Literary Fellow. Her most recent book, Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. Kate divides her time between London and Dorset. Her interest in Bess of Hardwick began with her love for Bess's only surviving house, Hardwick Hall.