Written for the Diamond Jubilee of 1897, this popular history follows Victoria from the June morning of 1837 when the girl-queen learned of her accession, through the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the death of Prince Albert, colonial expansion and the intellectual and spiritual changes of the age, closing with a chapter on Wesleyan Methodism.
A warm, patriotic Jubilee-year history that captures how Victorians saw their own era. Download the free EPUB.