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Is there anything left to say about Queen Victoria? A.N. Wilson has found plenty

A review of Victoria: A Life, by A.N. Wilson. A superb new revisionist biography argues that it was only after her husband’s death that Queen Victoria found her true self

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

6 September 2014

9:00 AM

Victoria: A Life A.N. Wilson

Atlantic Books, pp.642, £25, ISBN: 9781848879560

Do we really need a thumping new life of Queen Victoria? She seems to be one of our most familiar figures, the subject of countless books; but the surprising fact is that there hasn’t been a full, authoritative study since Elizabeth Longford’s life of 1974. A.N. Wilson has spent many years thinking and reading about Queen Victoria, and this superb revisionist biography is the book that he was born to write.

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