A personal reveal of Victoria (as compared to a true biography or historical portrait) this is a gem of written daguerreotype captured by Lytton Strachey, renowned for his sharp and trenchant assessment of Victorian times and personages from a distinctly early 20th century clear-eyed perspective.

Written by Strachey in 1921 Queen Victoria is an effortless narrative of post-Victorian/Edwardian release wrapped in the modernist, bourgeois-rejecting cloak of the Bloomsbury Set with Strachey's very own character and cliche-assassinating rapier glimmering throughout.

In this way, it is more about what Victoria wrought and how it shaped her wake than it is a pen-in-ink about Victoria herself.