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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
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Serving Victoria, Kate Hubbard
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- Released
- 2012
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Serving Victoria
- Subtitle
- Life in the Royal Household
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kate Hubbard
- Publisher
- Chatto&Windus
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 432
- ISBN10
- 0701183683
- ISBN13
- 9780701183684
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Historical Themes, References & Manuals, British Literature, Europe, Memories, Great Britain, History of Europe, Ireland, Home, Victorian Era, Babies, Social History, Kingdom, Servants
- Description
- 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