Volume 19, Number 9 · November 30, 1972
Tough Queen
By Noel Annan
Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Knopf, 486 pp., $10.00
Queen Victoria's Little Wars
by Byron Farwell
Harper & Row, 256 pp., $8.95
Victoria and the Victorians
by Herbert Tingsten
Delacorte, 608 pp., $12.50
Victoria's Heyday
by J.B. Priestley
Harper & Row, 296 pp., $15.00
When as a schoolboy I went to King's College, Cambridge, to sit for the history scholarship exam, a blue-ribbon competition by which the English try to make higher education resemble the Turf as nearly as possible, I was asked at the end of my interview whether I thought the last sentence of Strachey's Queen Victoria good history:
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