Jane Ridley
Jane Ridley is Professor of Modern History at Buckingham University, where she teaches a course on biography. Her previous books include The Young Disraeli; a study of Edwin Lutyens, The Architect and his Wife, which won the 2003 Duff Cooper Prize; and the best-selling Bertie: A Life of Edward VII. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, Ridley writes for the Spectator and other newspapers, and has appeared on radio and several television documentaries.
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Victoria
Queen, Matriarch, Empress
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197718-8
EAN 9780141977188
Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial, cultural, political, scientific and military change within the United Kingdom and great imperial expansion outside of it (she was made Empress of India in 1876). Overturning the established picture of the ...
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- Vintage UK, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-957544-3
EAN 9780099575443
This is the Sunday Times bestseller shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power and ushered out the Victorian age. The eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Bertie was bullied by ...
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