Her Majesty the Queen in her state robes.
(From painting by Alfred F. Chalon, R.A., 1838.)

Makers of England Series

IN THE DAYS

OF

QUEEN VICTORIA

By

EVA MARCH TAPPAN, Ph.D.

Author of "In the Days of Alfred the Great," "In the Days of William the Conqueror," "In the Days of Queen Elizabeth," etc.

ILLUSTRATED FROM FAMOUS PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

BOSTON:
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1903

Copyright, 1903, by Lee and Shepard
All rights reserved

In the Days of Queen Victoria

PREFACE

To her own people Queen Victoria was England itself, the emblem of the realm and of the empire. To millions who were not her people the words "the Queen" do not bring even yet the thought of the well-beloved woman who now shares the English throne, but rather of her who for nearly sixty-four years wore the crown of Great Britain and gave freely to her country of the gift that was in her.

Other women have been controlled by devotion to duty, other women have been moved to action by readiness of sympathy, but few have united so harmoniously a strong determination to do the right with a never-failing gentleness, a childlike sympathy with unyielding strength of purpose.

Happy is the realm that can count on the list of its sovereigns one whose career was so strongly marked by unfaltering faithfulness, by honesty of aim, and by statesmanlike wisdom of action.

Eva March Tappan.

Worcester, Mass.
February, 1903.

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