this will be a short book review, because i don't know how many of you are interested in the victorian era. if you've noticed, i'm extremely interested in british victorian lit these days. this book, we two: victoria and albert: rulers, partners, rivals is a new biography by well-known women's biographer gillian gill.
the book is very interesting and engaging. i had to read this for work because the author is coming to speak for a programming event. in the 90s, gill wrote what is now widely considered the authority on mary baker eddy and her life. so she'll be speaking on her work on eddy (which is a huge tome and i read it shortly after i got this job) and this newest book. so my department is doing a book club in preparation for her program. her other books include one on agatha christie and also florence nightingale.
despite the fact that i read it for work, i really couldn't put it down. it's fascinating to learn that all these victorian values that have seeped into today's culture (or that we hate to think of from the past) actually came from albert, not victoria. and it's amazing to read about albert's misogyny and inferiority complex that propelled him to be a kind of miser to all but his loving family.
i highly recommend it!
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