{"product_id":"2940015830798","title":"QUEEN VICTORIA","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.--Reign of Queen Victoria--Outlook of Royalty in 1819--Duke and\u003cbr\u003eDuchess of Kent--Birth of Victoria--Anecdotes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.--First Meeting with Prince Albert--Death of William\u003cbr\u003eIV.--Accession of Queen Victoria--First Speech from the\u003cbr\u003eThrone--Coronation--Life at Windsor--Personal Appearance--Betrothal to\u003cbr\u003ePrince Albert--Income from the Country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.--Marriage--Family Habits--Birth of Princess Royal--Queen's\u003cbr\u003eViews of Religious Training--Osborne and Balmoral--Death of the Duke of\u003cbr\u003eWellington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.--Chief Public Events, 1837-49--Rebellion in Canada--Opium War\u003cbr\u003ewith China--Wars in North-west India--Penny Postage--Repeal of the\u003cbr\u003eCorn-laws--Potato Famine--Free Trade-Chartism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.--The Crimean War, 1854-55--Interest of the Queen and Prince\u003cbr\u003eConsort in the suffering Soldiers--Florence Nightingale--Distribution of\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Crosses by the Queen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.--The Indian Mutiny, 1857-58--The Queen's Letter to Lord\u003cbr\u003eCanning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.--Marriage of the Princess Royal--Twenty-first Anniversary of\u003cbr\u003eWedding-day--Death of the Prince-Consort.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.--Death of Princess Alice--Illness of Prince of Wales--The\u003cbr\u003eFamily of the Queen--Opening of Indian Exhibition and Imperial\u003cbr\u003eInstitute--Jubilee--Death of Duke of Clarence--Marriage of Princess May.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.--The Queen as an Artist and Author--In her Holiday\u003cbr\u003eHaunts--Norman Macleod--Letter to Mr Peabody--The Queen's\u003cbr\u003eDrawing-room--Her pet Animals--A Model Mistress--Diamond Jubilee--Death of\u003cbr\u003ethe Queen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.--Summary of Public Events and Progress of the Nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReign of Queen Victoria--Outlook of Royalty in 1819--Duke and Duchess of\u003cbr\u003eKent--Birth of Victoria--Wisely trained by Duchess of Kent--Taught by\u003cbr\u003eFräulein Lehzen--Anecdotes of this Period--Discovers that she is next to\u003cbr\u003ethe Throne.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe reign of Queen Victoria may be aptly described as a period of progress\u003cbr\u003ein all that related to the well-being of the subjects of her vast empire.\u003cbr\u003eIn every department of science, literature, politics, and the practical\u003cbr\u003elife of the nation, there has been steady improvement and progress. Our\u003cbr\u003eships circumnavigate the globe and do the chief carrying trade of the\u003cbr\u003eworld. The locomotive binds industrial centres, and abridges time and\u003cbr\u003espace as it speeds along its iron pathway; whilst steam-power does the\u003cbr\u003ework of thousands of hands in our large factories. The telegraph links us\u003cbr\u003eto our colonies, and to the various nationalities of the world, in\u003cbr\u003ecommerce and in closer sympathy; and never was the hand and heart of\u003cbr\u003eBenevolence busier than in this later period of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003eOur colonial empire has shared also in the welfare and progress of the\u003cbr\u003emother-country.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121253040368,"sku":"2940015830798","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015830798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}