Copyright Fine Art Society

Victoria Regina

1837

From the Painting by H. T. Wells, R.A.

The
QUEEN’S REIGN

AND ITS COMMEMORATION · A LIT­ERARY AND PICTORIAL REVIEW OF THE PERIOD · THE STORY OF THE VICTORIAN TRANSFORM­ATION · BY SIR WALTER BESANT

1837

1897

The Werner Company · · London

Chicago · New York · Berlin · Paris
Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Seven

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION[5]
CHAPTER I[7]
CHAPTER II[15]
CHAPTER III[32]
CHAPTER IV[41]
CHAPTER V[48]
CHAPTER VI[61]
CHAPTER VII[72]
THE COMMEMORATION[85]