The Image of Queen Victoria in the Biography “Queen Victoria” by Giles Lytton Strachey

Abstract

The article analyzes the image of Queen Victoria in the biography of Giles Lytton Strachey through the stages of the heroine's life as a historical person, a monarch and a woman in a historical and cultural context. Strachey's Queen Victoria is presented as a controversial person. The lively disposition of the heroine is stressed by the emotional context of the depicted environment, the emphasis on personal things, subjective and emotional manifestations of the character, as well as the author's bold comments about Victoria.