THE ITEM:
QUEEN VICTORIA
HER LIFE AND TIMES 1819-1861
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"...CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH'S BIOGRAPHY IS UNLIKELY EVER TO BE SURPASSED ..."
MICHAEL RATCLIFFE - THE TIMES
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THE WRITER:
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH
Cecil Blanche Woodham-Smith (née Fitzgerald) (29 April 1896 – 16 March 1977) was a British historian and biographer. She wrote four popular history books, each dealing with a different aspect of the Victorian era.
In 1928 she married George Ivon Woodham-Smith, a distinguished London solicitor with whom she had an exceptionally close and deep relationship until his death in 1968. But although she possessed a knack for historical writing, she postponed her career (as was customary for women of her time) until her two children had gone off to boarding school. In the meantime, she wrote pot-boilers under the pseudonym Janet Gordon; this training was to stand her in good stead as an historian, as she mastered the art of writing entertaining narrative.
Cecil Woodham-Smith was appointed CBE in 1960. She received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland in 1964 and the University of St Andrews in 1965.
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THE PUBLISHER:
HAMISH HAMILTON
LONDON
THE YEAR:
1972
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SIZED
CENTIMETERS: 12,5 X 19,5
PAGES: 486
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
reasonable to good
COVER:
bit rubbed, dirty and discoloured, corners and edges lightly bumped, some undeep scratches
SPINE:
idem
PAGES:
discoloured, hardly to no signs of usage
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