Written with exceptional grace of language and impeccably researcher, Her Little Majesty by award-winning biographer and historian Carolly Ericsson is a fresh and moving portrait of Queen Victoria and the tumultous Victoria era.
Carolly Erickson reveals the inner contradictions of the resolute, high-minded, often cantankerous woman who become queen at the age of eighteen and reigned until her death sixty-four years later.
Victoria's painful early life had shaped and toughened her. Held in thrall to a domineering mother and a tyrannical household controller who attempted to keep her in a gilded Prusom, Victoria learned to overcome severe emotional deprivation and adversity, so that when she became queen she brought to her role extraordinary strenght and resilience