Ashley’s Reviews > Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire > Status Update
Ashley
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"the first man to sport [a top hat] in public, forty years earlier, was arrested in the grounds that it had a 'shiny luster calculated to alarm timid people.' (Four women had fainted upon seeing it, and pedestrians had booed.)"
— May 11, 2020 03:14AM
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Ashley
is on page 42 of 696
"She had terrible table manners, gobbling her food, picking bones, and doing 'unmentionable things with her asparagus'."
— May 10, 2020 02:10PM
Ashley
is on page 30 of 696
"With the exception of some unfortunate canaries in the Kensington Palace menageries, whom she tortured, Victoria loved animals."
Sure, skim right over those tortured canaries?!?
— May 10, 2020 01:52PM
Sure, skim right over those tortured canaries?!?
Ashley
is on page 22 of 696
I think this is the first biography I've ever read, and it's excellent.
— May 10, 2020 03:06AM
