GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN***
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GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN
by
ANNE E. KEELING
Author of "General Gordon: Hero and Saint," "The Oakhurst Chronicles," "Andrew Golding," etc.
Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged, 1897
[Illustration: Queen Victoria]
[Illustration: Claremont]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. THE GIRL QUEEN AND HER KINGDOM
CHAPTER II. STORM AND SUNSHINE
CHAPTER III. FRANCE AND ENGLAND
CHAPTER IV. THE CRIMEAN WAR
CHAPTER V. INDIA
CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF SORROWS
CHAPTER VII. CHANGES GOOD AND EVIL
CHAPTER VIII. OUR COLONIES
CHAPTER IX. INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
CHAPTER X. PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE FROM 1887 TO 1897
CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS OF WESLEYAN METHODISM UNDER QUEEN VICTORIA, 1837-1897
CONCLUSION
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Queen Victoria Claremont The Coronation of Queen Victoria Kensington Palace Duchess of Kent Elizabeth Fry Rowland Hill Father Mathew George Stephenson Wheatstone St. James's Palace Prince Albert The Queen in Her Wedding-Dress Sir Robert Peel Daniel O'Connell Richard Cobden John Bright Lord John Russell Thomas Chalmers John Henry Newmann Balmoral Buckingham Palace Napoleon III The Crystal Palace, 1851 Lord Ashley Earl of Derby Duke of Wellington Florence Nightingale Lord Canning Sir Colin Campbell Henry Havelock Sir John Lawrence Windsor Castle Prince Frederick William Princess Royal Charles Kingsley Lord Palmerston Abraham Lincoln and his son Princess Alice The Mausoleum Dr. Norman Macleod Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Osborne House Sir Robert Napier Mr. Gladstone Lord Beaconsfield Lord Salisbury General Gordon Duke of Albany Duchess of Albany Sydney Heads Robert Southey William Wordsworth Alfred Tennyson Robert Browning Charles Dickens W. M. Thackeray Charlotte Brontë Lord Macaulay Thomas Carlyle William Whewell, D.D. Sir David Brewster Sir James Y. Simpson Michael Faraday David Livingstone Sir John Franklin John Ruskin Dean Stanley "I was sick, and ye visited me" Duke of Connaught The Imperial Institute Duke of Clarence Duke of York Duchess of York Princess Henry of Battenberg Prince Henry of Battenberg The Czarina of Russia H. M. Stanley Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Miss Kingsley J. M. Barrie Richard Jefferies Rev. J. G. Wood Dean Church Professor Huxley Professor Tyndall C. H. Spurgeon Dr. Horatius Bonar Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A. Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A. Wesley preaching on his father's tomb Group of Presidents:--No. 1 Centenary Meeting at Manchester Key to Centenary Meeting Wesleyan Centenary Hall Group of Presidents:--No. 2 Sir Francis Lycett The Methodist Settlement, Bermondsey. London, S.E. Theological Institution, Richmond Theological Institution, Didsbury Theological Institution, Headingley Theological Institution, Handsworth Kingswood School, Bath The North House, Leys School, Cambridge Queen's College, Taunton Wesley College, Sheffield Children's Home, Bolton Westminster Training College and Schools Group of Presidents:--No. 3
