PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Christopher Hibbert was educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. He served as an infantry officer during the war, was twice wounded and was awarded the MC in 1945. His books include 'The Destruction of Lord Raglan' (which won the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962), 'The English: A Social History', 'Cavaliers and Roundheads' and 'The Great Mutiny: India, 1857'. He also wrote biographies of Elizabeth I, George III, George IV, Nelson, Wellington and Samuel Johnson. He died in 2008.
Hibbert, author of several distinguished biographies and histories, now turns his attentions to Queen Victoria whose reign spanned the years 1837-1901. Such a subject demands a comprehensive study and this one does not disappoint, incorporating lengthy extracts from the queen's own journals in order to balance the narrative appraisal. Victoria was a dedicated diarist and her regular jottings are useful in providing an informative portrait of her long and influential reign, which witnessed enormous changes, from the advent of the railway to the birth of the motor car. Hibbert's is a scholarly, exhaustive account of a remarkable monarch, tracing the course of her reign from the early days when she ascended the throne as a girl of 18 through the happy days of her marriage to Prince Albert and finally to the last decades of her life when she consolidated her earlier triumphs. Showing signs of scrupulous research, every aspect of Victoria's life comes under minute scrutiny here, and whilst sometimes a little more elan in such a volume would be welcome, this remains an admirably thorough biography. (Kirkus UK)
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