Published more half a century ago, Queen Victoria won immediate popular success and was hailed as a landmark in biography. The wit and astringency of Emminent Victorians have mellowed in this endearing portrait of England’s first "respectable" monarch. Strachey’s study of her youth, with its Whiggish sympathies and the unseen influences of Baroness Lehzen, King Leopold and Baron Stockmar; of her total surrender to Prince Albert; of her relations with Melbourne, Peel, Palmerston and Disraeli, may cast an image almost as legendary as the pious icon it replaced.

CONTENTS:

1. Antecedents
2. Childhood
3. Lord Melbourne
4. Marriage
5. Lord Palmerston
6. Last Years of the Prince Consort
7. Widowhood
8. Mr. Gladstone and Lord Beaconsfield
9. Old Age
10. The End