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- 432 páginas
- 16 horas de lectura
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Kate Hubbard's entertaining book.is a fine examination of both the bizarre and the banal in the domestic machinery of Victoria's court (Observer ) Hubbard would have made a good courtier: her prose is polite, her insight into the tangled relationships of the household impressive. Her achievement is to enter a sealed world, ruled by repetition, and make it compelling (5 stars) (Telegraph ) Hubbard can be delightfully waspish about life at court, and has produced from the most unpromising of raw material a book that is both eye-opening and thoroughly engaging (Sunday Times ) Entertaining account of the royal household.the change of perspective brought about by taking such figures out of the background and into the spotlight is revelatory (Country Life ) Entertaining portrait of Queen Victoria...having plundered a rich vein of fascinating and often new information, Hubbard shows that serving Victoria was no doddle (Val Hennessey Daily Mail ) Book Description A sparkling portrait of the court of Queen Victoria, seen through the lives of her household using never-seen-before diaries and letters
Compra de libros
Serving Victoria, Kate Hubbard
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2012
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
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- Título
- Serving Victoria
- Subtítulo
- Life in the Royal Household
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Kate Hubbard
- Editorial
- Chatto&Windus
- Publicado en
- 2012
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0701183683
- ISBN13
- 9780701183684
- Serie
- Categorías
- Etiquetas
- Tema histórico, Guías y Manuales, Literatura Británica, Europa, Memorias, Gran Bretaña, Historia de Europa, Irlanda, Hogar, Época Victoriana, Bebés, Historia social, Reinos, Servicio Doméstico
- Descripción
- Kate Hubbard's entertaining book.is a fine examination of both the bizarre and the banal in the domestic machinery of Victoria's court (Observer ) Hubbard would have made a good courtier: her prose is polite, her insight into the tangled relationships of the household impressive. Her achievement is to enter a sealed world, ruled by repetition, and make it compelling (5 stars) (Telegraph ) Hubbard can be delightfully waspish about life at court, and has produced from the most unpromising of raw material a book that is both eye-opening and thoroughly engaging (Sunday Times ) Entertaining account of the royal household.the change of perspective brought about by taking such figures out of the background and into the spotlight is revelatory (Country Life ) Entertaining portrait of Queen Victoria...having plundered a rich vein of fascinating and often new information, Hubbard shows that serving Victoria was no doddle (Val Hennessey Daily Mail ) Book Description A sparkling portrait of the court of Queen Victoria, seen through the lives of her household using never-seen-before diaries and letters