by Helen Rappaport · St Martins Pr · tapa dura · ISBN 9780312621056
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«A Magnificent Obsession» is the historical essay by Helen Rappaport, published by St. Martin's Press in hardback (352 pages, in English).
The book studies the marriage of Victoria and Albert, a fairy tale that ended in tragedy. The prince's death plunged the queen and the country into mourning that changed the monarchy. With letters, diaries and press of the era, Rappaport follows Albert's last months and Victoria's ten years of seclusion.
The full subtitle is «Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy»; the work was first published in Britain in 2011 as «Magnificent Obsession».
Aimed at readers interested in the British monarchy, the Victorian era and 19th-century mourning customs.
Helen F. Rappaport is a British historian and former actress. She specialises in the Victorian era and revolutionary Russia.
