Discusses the importance in history of the queen who ruled England for sixty-four years and during whose reign Great Britain expanded its influence throughout the world.
The life of the nineteenth-century English monarch whose sixty-three year reign over one-quarter of the world's population covered a period of great industrial and social change.
Provides an overview of Queen Victoria's life and reign and of the daily lives of the people of nineteenth-century England, and includes excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, and books of the time.
