In this engaging study, Walter L. Arnstein explores both the private life and the public role of the young princess who inherited Britain's throne as a teenager and who became the octogenarian symbolic head of the largest empire in the history of the world. Arnstein incorporates the findings of past studies and recent research (including articles of his own based on previously unpublished letters and journals) to shed light on often-neglected aspects of Victoria's life and reign: her concern with gender roles, religion, politics, and Ireland; as well as her involvement with both the controversial domestic issues and the great international conflicts of the era. Wherever the historical evidence allows, Arnstein enables the monarch to speak in her own words, demonstrating that Victoria was not only the queen who became an adjective, but also a highly-quotable, multi-dimensional human being. Concise, authoritative and attractively illustrated, Queen Victoria provides the economic, social, cultural and political background knowledge to make the life of this fascinating monarch intelligible even to readers unfamiliar with her now distant world.

Queen Victoria

Biographies & Memoirs

ARNSTEIN, WALTER L.

Historical

Red Globe Press

Dead for little more than one hundred years, Queen Victoria has already been the subject of more biographies than any other woman born since 1800. This newest biography from a well known historian is justified and distinguished by the incorporation of recent research on often-neglected aspects of her life and reign, as well as its relative brevity. Including much of Victoria's own writings from journals and letters, Arnstein takes a thorough look at her personal life and religious views, but also investigates her public role such as her involvement with Britain's army, her political initiatives and her connections with Ireland. The author's solid understanding of Victorian society and its relationship to the queen gives this book a solidarity missing in other biographies of the queen. The book provides enough economic, social, cultural and political background knowledge to make this book accessible even to readers unfamiliar with her now distant world.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present

History

Wilson, John H.

Europe

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

The Age of Aristocracy 1688 to 1830

Willcox, William B.

Americas

This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century.

Britain yesterday and today: 1830 to the present (A History of England)

D.C. Health

The Age of Aristocracy, 1688 to 1830 (History of England (D.C. Heath and Company : Sixth Edition), 3.)

D.C. Heath & Co.

This text, which is the fourth volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. This is the only comprehensive text available for the History of England survey course that has been revised and updated to include coverage of the entire 20th century.

Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 To the Present (History of England (D.C. Heath and Company : Seventh Edition), 4.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Protestant Versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England: Mr. Newdegate and the Nuns

Religion & Spirituality

Univ of Missouri Pr

This book is based on the most powerful political figure of the nineteenth century – Queen of England and Empress of India, Victoria Regina. It illuminates the biography and career of the queen by selecting and reprinting relevant extracts from rare contemporary sources.

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part III, Volume 1: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Annie Besant and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by their Contemporaries

Literature & Fiction

Steinbach, Susie L.

Logan, Deborah

LoPatin-Lummis, Nancy

Fix Anderson, Nancy

History & Criticism

Routledge

This book features the perspectives of contemporaries of Victorian political figure, Florence Nightingale, who saw in her life and career a legend in the making, one of greater depth and relevance than that created by the popular imagination.

Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part III, Volume 2: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Annie Besant and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by their Contemporaries

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