Strachey's celebrated biography of Queen Victoria, beautifully illustrated with contemporary paintings and photographs.Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer.
This is a portrait of Victoria as the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular imagination, which also shows her as often shy and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags.
In this book the author incorporates the hitherto unpublished journal written by Queen Victoria during her stay in Switzerland when she was accompanied by a daughter.
They consist, in great part, of letters from Ministers detailing the proceedings of Parliament, and of various political memoranda dealing with home, foreign, and colonial policy; among these are a few drafts of Her Majesty's replies.
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