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Queen Victoria of Great Britain: index to resources on this site and on the Net. Includes links to several 19th century biographies of Victoria.
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, gave her name to an age.
Children and Grandchildren of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
A list of the children of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, showing their intermarriages with other royal houses of Europe.
Queen Victoria Quotes
Quotes by Queen Victoria - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Queen Victoria Bibliography
A list of books about Queen Victoria, plus some biographies of her famous children and grandchildren. Queen Victoria is one of the most-studied, most-written-about women of history.
Queen Victoria: Eminent Women of the Age
by James Parton. A biography of Victoria published in 1868 and reproduced on this site in full, formatted for the web.
Biography
From the official website of British royalty.
Letter from Commissioner Lin
A letter from a high imperial commissioner of China, 1839, to the new Queen of England.
Gallery of Portraits
Victoria and her family: seven illustrations, most in color.
Biography
From the Victorian Web, a hyper-linked biography, with information about the context of her reign.
The Monarchy from the Birth of Queen Victoria
A tree of the descendants of Victoria and Albert, showing the many royal houses of Europe into which their children and grandchildren married.
Life and Times of Queen Victoria
Well-illustrated biography of Victoria.
The Reality of Victorianism
About the cultural age that took its name from Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria
From PBS, an extensive site including biography, illlustrations, a political history of her reign, educational resources and even a screensaver and shopping.
Queen Victoria
A biographical sketch from the BBC.
Queen Victoria's Empire
A PBS companion website, including historical sketches of different periods of Queen Victoria's reign (see navigation near top of page) and educational resources -- and even a downloadable screensaver for Mac and Windows.
Un-Victorian Writings
Queen Victoria on pregnancy, children, marriage and men -- some surprising views, expressed in letters.
Victoria
A biography with an illustration, part of a site on British monarchs.
Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837
About Victoria's ascension to the throne and later reign.
Victoria Hanover, Queen of England
A genealogical entry for Victoria, linked to similar genealogical entries of her parents, husband and children, and from there to more ancestors, relatives and descendants.
The Young Queen
Article on highlights of Victoria's reign, through the late 1850s.

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