Book : Victorias Daughters - Packard, Jerrold M.

-Titulo Original : Victorias Daughters

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St. Martins Griffin

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Review “Packards narrative is accessible, unpretentious, and solidly written....He manages to treat historical events succinctly while emphasizing the princesses individual lives and family relationships, their talents in music and art, their patronage of schools and hospitals, and their pioneering advocacy of womens education and employment.” Publishers Weekly Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earths people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two of these princesses would themselves produce children of immense consequence. All five would face the social restrictions and familial machinations borne by ninetheenth-century women of far less exalted class.Researched at the houses and palaces of its five subjects-- in London, Scotland, Berlin, Darmstadt, and Ottawa-- Victorias Daughters examines a generation of royal women who were dominated by their mother, married off as much for political advantage as for love, and passed over entirely when their brother Bertie ascended to the throne. Packard, an experienced biographer whose last book chronicled Victorias final days, provides valuable insights into their complex, oft-tragic lives as scions of Europes most influential dynasty, and daughters of their own very troubled times. About the Author Jerrold Packards books include the best-selling Victorias Daughters, the life stories of the five princesses born to Britains longest-reigning monarch; Sons of Heaven, a chronicle of Japans monarchy over fourteen centuries; and American Nightmare, the history of Jim Crow and the racial torment that America endured for more than a hundred years in the wake of the Civil War. Mr. Packard lives in Vermont.