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Born in 1819 and fifth in line to the throne, Victoria came to rule the strongest nation on earth when women were often powerless, and Julia Baird's biography follows how she did it. As a girl she resisted her mother's meddling and an adviser's bullying. As a teenage queen she welcomed the crown and its freedom, and at twenty she fell for Prince Albert, with whom she had nine children. She was outspoken with her ministers, survived eight assassination attempts and, after Albert's death, began an intimate and controversial relationship with her servant John Brown. Her century brought revolutions, industrial change and a growing empire. Baird's sources include new material on the John Brown relationship.
Ryan Holiday put it on his list of the very best books he read in 2018, saying he knew nothing about Queen Victoria before and that Baird makes her accessible while capturing what life was like for a 19th-century woman.
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Ryan Holiday (Media Strategist, Author, Founder/Brass Check)
I knew nothing about Queen Victoria but Julia Baird does an amazing job of making her accessible and interesting–and captures just what life was like for a woman in the 19th century, even if she was a queen!
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