The Girls' Book of Famous Queens

QUEEN VICTORIA.
THE GIRLS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS QUEENS
BY LYDIA HOYT FARMER AUTHOR OF “THE BOYS’ BOOK OF FAMOUS RULERS,” “A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,” “THE LIFE OF LA FAYETTE” TWELFTH THOUSAND NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS
Copyright , By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1887. Typography by J. S. Cushing & Co. ———————— Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston.
DEDICATED TO MY DAUGHTER.
IN the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have made their names illustrious by heroic deeds and great enterprises.
The names which we have chosen for this book do not include all the renowned female sovereigns; but their lives present some of the most important epochs in the world’s history.
I am indebted to the assistance of my son, in the sketches of Queen Marie Antoinette and the Empress Eugénie.
THE AUTHOR.

“What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?”—Cowley.