Front matter
Reading edition · Edition 2
QUEEN VICTORIA, PRINCE ALBERT AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. From the Picture by F. Winterhalter.
QUEEN VICTORIA
BY
LYTTON STRACHEY
LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1921
TO
VIRGINIA WOOLF
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. ANTECEDENTS 1
II. CHILDHOOD 18
III. LORD MELBOURNE 51
IV. MARRIAGE 97
V. LORD PALMERSTON 149
VI. LAST YEARS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT 185
VII. WIDOWHOOD 218
VIII. MR. GLADSTONE AND LORD BEACONSFIELD 240
IX. OLD AGE 269
X. THE END 307
BIBLIOGRAPHY 311
ILLUSTRATIONS
QUEEN VICTORIA, PRINCE ALBERT AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. From the picture of F. Winterhalter, at Buckingham Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece
PRINCESS VICTORIA IN 1836. From a print after the picture by F. Winterhalter
LORD MELBOURNE. From the portrait by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., in possession of the Earl of Rosebery
QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1838. From the portrait by E. Corbould
PRINCE ALBERT IN 1840. From the portrait by John Partridge, at Buckingham Palace
QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE PRINCE CONSORT IN 1860
QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1863
QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1876. From the portrait by Von Angeli, in possession of Coningsby Disraeli, Esq. Presented by Her Majesty to the Earl of Beaconsfield
QUEEN VICTORIA IN 1897
For facilities afforded in regard to the reproduction of certain of the above, thanks are due to Mr. John Murray.
Authority for every important statement of fact in the following pages will be found in the footnotes. The full titles of the works to which reference is made are given in the Bibliography at the end of the volume.
The author is indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum for their permission to make use of certain unpublished passages in the manuscript of the Greville Memoirs.