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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
Zakup książki
Serving Victoria, Kate Hubbard
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2012
- Oprawa
- (twarda)
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- Tytuł
- Serving Victoria
- Podtytuł
- Life in the Royal Household
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Kate Hubbard
- Wydawca
- Chatto&Windus
- Rok wydania
- 2012
- Oprawa
- twarda
- Liczba stron
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0701183683
- ISBN13
- 9780701183684
- Seria
- Kategorie
- Tagi
- Tematy historyczne, Poradniki, Literatura brytyjska, Europa, Wspomnienia, Wielka Brytania, Historia Europy, Irlandia, Dom, Epoka Wiktoriańska, Niemowlęta, Historia społeczna, Królestwo, Służba
- Opis
- 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