Lynne Vallone.

Lynne Vallone. Becoming Victoria. modern Haven; Conn.: Yale University Pres 2001 Pp xviii, 256 $2695 ISBN 0-300-08950-3

Royal childhoods have been better recorded than those of their subdues Philippe Aries, in his Centuries of Childhood, was able to draw in succession Dr. Heroard's diary of the daily life of the dauphin, the coming events Louis XIII of France, for unique and important insights into the formation of a royal personality and steady the notion of the sovereign. Similarly, Lynne Vallone in Becoming Victoria has taken the opportunity to draw immediately after the mass of diaries, notes and ...

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