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I'm a history major, so I tried to read this book for historiography (the study of how history has been documented). Compared to the historians we studied in this class, Picard's writing is extremely disappointing. While she has an overall agenda, advocating that the Victorian Era wasn't all it's cracked up to be, her writing is bland and forgettable. Especially considering in the introduction, Picard writes, "I took an authorial decision at a very early stage: no novels, no poems." This is the VICTORIAN ERA people! The lived and breathed novels and poems! The one redeeming value: nice cover art.