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)

9781108077781, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 September 2014

702 pages, 11 b/w illus. 4 tables
21.6 x 14 x 3.9 cm, 0.88 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 3 covers the period 1854–61, including the events of the Crimean War, and ends with the Queen's anguish at the death of the Prince Consort. It also contains an index to the first three volumes.

23. 1854
24. 1855
25. 1856
26. 1857
27. 1858
28. 1859
29. 1860
30. 1861
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]