Queen Victoria: Scenes from Her Life and Reign (1901)
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Queen Victoria: Scenes from Her Life and Reign (1901)
From inside the book: To give even an outline of all the events and all the wonderful progress made during the long reign of Queen Victoria would require many volumes, and in the limits of one small book it is possible to glance only at its principal events. Comparatively little can be said of the life of the Queen " as "a woman, and yet it is as a woman rather than as a Queen that her influence has been most influential over the people she ruled. Her domestic virtues, the purity of her life, her example as a wife and a mother, her sympathy with her people on all occasions of distress and suffering have given her a place in their hearts such as no monarch ever before possessed; and her death has been mourned, not only as that of a Queen, but of a woman privately and personally most dear to us all. Her virtues have gained for her the admiration and respect of people of all nations, and the outburst of sorrow universally exhibited upon the news of her death is a far higher recognition of her worth than any written tribute can be.
Contents: I. The Queen's Infancy II. The Queen's Childhood III. The Queen's Accession IV. The Coronation V. The Queen's Marriage VI. Troubles Abroad VII. Uneventful Years VIII. The Sikh Wars IX. An Era of Revolution X. The Exhibition of 1851 XI. The Crimean War XII. Two Great Battles XIII. Domestic Events XIV. The Indian Mutiny XV. The Turning of the Tide XVI. Popular Movements XVII. Death op the Prince Consort XVIIL Marriage of the Prince of Wales XIX. The Abyssinian Expedition XX. The Prince of Wales' Illness XXI. The Ashanti Expedition XXII. The Afghan War XXIII. The Afghan War No. II. XXIV. The Zulu War XXV. The War in the Transvaal XXVL The War in Egypt XXVII. The War in the Soudan XXVIII. The Nile Expedition XXIX. The Queen and her Subjects XXX. Egyptian Affairs XXXI. Briton and Boer XXXII. The Far East XXXIII. The Death of the Queen
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