Top Quotes & Sayings by Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford

Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford,, better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th-century aristocrats such as Queen Victoria (1964), Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (1969).