How long does it take to read Queen Victoria?
a personal history
Queen Victoria by Christopher Hibbert takes about 10 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 557 pages, about 153,175 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The unearthing of lively, telling anecdotes is the special province of Christopher Hibbert, who delights in forcing readers, in the most entertaining way, to reassess all their notions about some of the world's most intriguing historical figures. His biography of Victoria is no exception. We learn in these pages that not only was she the formidable, demanding, capricious Queen of popular imagination, but she was also often shy and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often puritanical and censorious when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be passionately sensual, emotional, and deeply sentimental. Her 64-year reign saw thrones fall, empires crumble, new continents explored, and England's rise to global and industrial dominance. Hibbert's account of Victoria's life and times is just as sweeping as he reveals to us the real Victoria in all her complexity: failed mother and imperious monarch, irrepressible woman and icon of a repressive age.--From publisher description.
Subjects: History, Queens, Biography, Great Britain, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
