The Letters of Queen Victoria

This nine-volume selection from the letters of Queen Victoria was commissioned by Edward VII, and published between 1907 and 1932.

Queen Victoria (Author), A. C. Benson (Edited by), Reginald Brett, Viscount Esher (Edited by)

9781108077767, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 September 2014

692 pages, 13 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.9 cm, 0.87 kg

This nine-volume selection from the letters of Queen Victoria, with ancillary material, was commissioned by her son, Edward VII, and published between 1907 and 1932, with a gap of almost twenty years between the third and fourth volumes. The editors of the first three volumes, the poet and writer A. C. Benson (1862–1925) and the second Viscount Esher (1852–1930), administrator and courtier, decided that the plan for the selection of letters from the thousands available should be to publish 'such documents as would serve to bring out the development of the Queen's character and disposition, and to give typical instances of her methods in dealing with political and social matters'. Volume 1 contains introductory chapters about the Queen's early life, and letters to and from the young princess, continuing through her accession, coronation, courtship and marriage, and ending in 1843.

Preface
1. Ancestry of Queen Victoria
2. Queen Victoria's early years
3. Queen Victoria's relations and friends
4. 1821–35
5. 1836
6. 1837
7. 1838
8. 1839
9. 1840
10. 1841
11. 1842
12. 1843.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]