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- 432 stránek
- 16 hodin čtení
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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
Nákup knihy
Serving Victoria, Kate Hubbard
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2012
- Vazba
- (pevná)
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- Titul
- Serving Victoria
- Podtitul
- Life in the Royal Household
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Kate Hubbard
- Vydavatel
- Chatto&Windus
- Rok vydání
- 2012
- Vazba
- pevná
- Počet stran
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0701183683
- ISBN13
- 9780701183684
- Série
- Kategorie
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Příručky a návody, Britská literatura, Evropa, Vzpomínky, Velká Británie, Historie Evropy, Irsko, Domov, Viktoriánská doba, Miminka, Sociální historie, Království, Služebnictvo
- Anotace
- 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