The complete online text of Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey.

Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era. Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was the eleventh of thirteen children of an upper-middle-class family. His father, S...

Lytton Strachey, critic and biographer, created a new kind of biography. His studies of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, powerful and dramatic, though relatively conventional, are excellent biographies, but his Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, e...

WALTER L. ARNSTEIN. Queen Victoria. New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii + 254, introduction, bibliography, index. $29.95. It is just as well that Walter Arnstein takes on the question of why another biography of Queen Victoria from the very first...

Remaking Queen Victoria. Ed. by Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 10) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiii +279 pp. [pound]40;$59.95 (paperbound [pound]14.95;$19.95). Moving beyond the facts of biography and official...

Luxury cruise provider Cunard Line is launching a ship named Queen Victoria in December, and has also just announced plans to build a new ship named Queen Elizabeth.The Queen Victoria is scheduled to launch Dec. 10 in Southampton, England, for its maiden voyage around Northern...

Cunard's new Queen Victoria cruise ship started out its first world tour sailing in tandem with the Queen Elizabeth 2, which is on its 26th and final trip around the globe.The two ships had a historic rendezvous Jan. 13 in New York Harbor with the...