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قراءة كتاب Queen Victoria
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اللغة: English
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QUEEN VICTORIA
BY
E. GORDON BROWNE, M.A.
WITH TWELVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
GEORGE G. HARRAP & COMPANY
2 & 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.
MCMXV
Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh, Great Britain
Contents
CHAPTER
| I. | A LOOK BACK |
| II. | CHILDHOOD DAYS |
| III. | EARLY YEARS |
| IV. | HUSBAND AND WIFE |
| V. | FAMILY LIFE |
| VI. | STRIFE |
| VII. | THE CHILDREN OF ENGLAND |
| VIII. | MINISTERING WOMEN |
| IX. | BALMORAL |
| X. | THE GREAT EXHIBITION |
| XI. | ALBERT THE GOOD |
| XII. | FRIENDS AND ADVISERS |
| XIII. | QUEEN AND EMPIRE |
| XIV. | STRESS AND STRAIN |
| XV. | VICTORIA THE GREAT |
Illustrations
In the old legend of Rip Van Winkle with which the American writer Washington Irving has made us so familiar, the ne'er-do-weel Rip wanders off into the Kaatskill Mountains with his dog and gun in order to escape from his wife's scolding tongue. Here he meets the spectre crew of Captain Hudson, and, after partaking of their hospitality, falls into a deep sleep which lasts for twenty years. The latter part of the story describes the changes which he finds on his