Great Britain and Her Queen

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Author

Keeling, Anne E.

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E-text prepared by Roy Brown

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

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Text

eBook-No.

13103

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13103

Release Date

August 3, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling — E-text prepared by Roy Brown HTML version prepared by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. — Queen Victoria — GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN
2. 2.ANNE E. KEELING — Author of "General Gordon: Hero and Saint," "The Oakhurst Chronicles," "Andrew Golding," etc. — Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged, 1897 — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — Claremont — CHAPTER I THE GIRL-QUEEN AND HER KINGDOM — The Coronation of Queen Victoria — Kensington Palace — Duchess of Kent (From an Engraving by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Pall Mall East) — Elizabeth Fry — Rowland Hill — Father Mathew — George Stephenson — Wheatstone — CHAPTER II STORM AND SUNSHINE. — St. James's Palace — Prince Albert — The Queen in her Wedding-Dress (After the Picture by Drummond) — Sir Robert Peel — Daniel O'Connell — Richard Cobden — John Bright — Lord John Russell — Thomas Chalmers — John Henry Newman (From a photograph by Mr. H. J. Whitlock, Birmingham) — Balmoral — Osborne House — CHAPTER III FRANCE AND ENGLAND — Buckingham Palace — Napoleon III — CHAPTER IV THE CRIMEAN WAR — The Crystal Palace, 1851 — Lord Ashley — Earl of Derby — Duke of Wellington — Florence Nightingale — CHAPTER V INDIA — Lord Canning — Sir Colin Campbell — Henry Havelock — Sir John Lawrence — CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNINGS OF SORROWS — Windsor Castle — Prince Frederick William — Princess Royal — Charles Kingsley (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry) — Lord Palmerston — Abraham Lincoln and his son — Princess Alice — The Mausoleum — Dr. Norman Macleod — Prince of Wales (From a Photograph by W. & D. Downey, Ebury Street, W) — Princess of Wales (From a Photograph by Walery) — CHAPTER VII CHANGES GOOD AND EVIL — Sir Robert Napier — Mr. Gladstone — Lord Beaconsfield — Lord Salisbury — General Gordon — Duke of Albany (From a Photograph by A. BASSANO, Bond Street, W) — Duchess of Albany (From a Photograph by A. BASSANO, Bond Street, W) — CHAPTER VIII OUR COLONIES — Sydney Heads — CHAPTER IX INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL PROGRESS — Robert Southey — William Wordsworth — Alfred Tennyson (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry) — Robert Browning (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry) — Charles Dickens (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry) — W. M. Thackeray (From a Drawing by Samuel Lawrence) — Charlotte Brontë — Lord Macaulay — Thomas Carlyle — William Whewell, D.D. — Sir David Brewster — Sir James Simpson — Michael Faraday — David Livingstone — Sir John Franklin — John Ruskin (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry) — Dean Stanley — "I was sick, and ye visited me." — CHAPTER X PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE FROM 1887 TO 1897 — Duke of Connaught — The Imperial Institute — Duke of Clarence (From a Photograph by Lafayette, Dublin) — Duke of York (From a Photograph by Russell & Sons, Baker Street, W) — Duchess of York (From a Photograph by Russell & Sons, Baker Street, W) — Princess Henry of Battenberg (From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde, Isle of Wight) — Prince Henry of Battenberg (From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde, Isle of Wight) — The Czarina of Russia — H. M. Stanley — Dr. Fridtjof Nansen — Miss Kingsley — J. M. Barrie — Richard Jefferies — Professor Huxley (From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co) — Professor Tyndall (From a Photograph by Alexander Bassano, Ltd) — C. H. Spurgeon — Dr. Horatius Bonar — Rev. J. G. Wood — Dean Church — J. E. Millais, P.R.A. (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry) — Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A. (From a Photograph by J. R. Mayall, Piccadilly, W) — CHAPTER XI — Part I — Wesley preaching on his father's tomb — Group of Presidents Number One — Centenary Meeting at Manchester — Wesleyan Centenary Hall — Group of Presidents Number Two — Part II — Sir Francis Lycett — The Methodist Settlement, Bermondsey, London, S.E. — Theological Institution, Richmond — Theological Institution, Didsbury — Theological Institution, Headingley — Theological Institution, Handsworth — Kingswood School, Bath — The North House, Leys School, Cambridge — Queen's College, Taunton — Wesley College, Sheffield — Children's Home, Bolton — Westminster Training College — Group of Presidents Number Three — CONCLUSION
3. 3.Footnotes

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