Queen Victoria: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Queen Victoria, credited to Lytton Strachey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey. Read by R. S. Steinberg. Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the hypocrisy at the centre of Victorian morality. This work was followed in the same style by "Queen Victoria" (1921). (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Queen Victoria
• Author credits: Lytton Strachey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 10:20:20

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• Queen Victoria
• Victoria
• biography
• history
• English history
• Strachey
• Lytton Strachey

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 34:15
2. 02 - Chapter II, Part 1 — 42:27
3. 03 - Chapter II, Part 2 — 25:35
4. 04 - Chapter III. Lord Melbourne - Part 1 — 28:46
5. 05 - Chapter III. Lord Melbourne - Part 2 — 35:09
6. 06 - Chapter III. Lord Melbourne, Part 3 — 28:45
7. 07 - Chapter IV. Marriage - Part 1 — 26:37
8. 08 - Chapter IV. Marriage - Part 2 — 37:39
9. 09 - Chapter IV. Marriage - Part 3 — 37:35
10. 10 - Chapter V. Lord Palmerston - Part 1 — 20:20
11. 11 - Chapter V. Lord Palmerston - Part 2 — 31:37
12. 12 - Chapter V. Lord Palmerston - Part 3 — 18:48
13. 13 - Chapter VI. Last Years of Prince Consort - Part 1 — 32:49
14. 14 - Chapter VI. Last Years of Prince Consort - Part 2 — 31:16
15. 15 - Chapter VII. Widowhood - Part 1 — 26:50
16. 16 - Chapter VII. Widowhood - Part 2 — 18:33
17. 17 - Chapter VIII. Gladstone and Lord Beaconsfield - Parts 1 and 2 — 23:13
18. 18 - Chapter VIII. Gladstone and Lord Beaconsfield - Part 3 — 34:42
19. 19 - Chapter IX. Old Age - Part 1 — 25:29
20. 20 - Chapter IX. Old Age - Part 2 — 31:57
21. 21 - Chapter IX. Old Age - Part 3 — 20:56
22. 22 - Chapter X. - The End — 7:09

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