Great Britain and Her Queen
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- The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Britain and Her Queen, by Anne E. Keeling
- E-text prepared by Roy Brown HTML version prepared by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.
- Queen Victoria
- GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN
- ANNE E. KEELING
- Author of "General Gordon: Hero and Saint," "The Oakhurst Chronicles," "Andrew Golding," etc.
- Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged, 1897
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- Claremont
- CHAPTER I THE GIRL-QUEEN AND HER KINGDOM
- The Coronation of Queen Victoria
- Kensington Palace
- Duchess of Kent (From an Engraving by Messrs. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Pall Mall East)
- Elizabeth Fry
- Rowland Hill
- Father Mathew
- George Stephenson
- Wheatstone
- CHAPTER II STORM AND SUNSHINE.
- St. James's Palace
- Prince Albert
- The Queen in her Wedding-Dress (After the Picture by Drummond)
- Sir Robert Peel
- Daniel O'Connell
- Richard Cobden
- John Bright
- Lord John Russell
- Thomas Chalmers
- John Henry Newman (From a photograph by Mr. H. J. Whitlock, Birmingham)
- Balmoral
- Osborne House
- CHAPTER III FRANCE AND ENGLAND
- Buckingham Palace
- Napoleon III
- CHAPTER IV THE CRIMEAN WAR
- The Crystal Palace, 1851
- Lord Ashley
- Earl of Derby
- Duke of Wellington
- Florence Nightingale
- CHAPTER V INDIA
- Lord Canning
- Sir Colin Campbell
- Henry Havelock
- Sir John Lawrence
- CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNINGS OF SORROWS
- Windsor Castle
- Prince Frederick William
- Princess Royal
- Charles Kingsley (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry)
- Lord Palmerston
- Abraham Lincoln and his son
- Princess Alice
- The Mausoleum
- Dr. Norman Macleod
- Prince of Wales (From a Photograph by W. & D. Downey, Ebury Street, W)
- Princess of Wales (From a Photograph by Walery)
- CHAPTER VII CHANGES GOOD AND EVIL
- Sir Robert Napier
- Mr. Gladstone
- Lord Beaconsfield
- Lord Salisbury
- General Gordon
- Duke of Albany (From a Photograph by A. BASSANO, Bond Street, W)
- Duchess of Albany (From a Photograph by A. BASSANO, Bond Street, W)
- CHAPTER VIII OUR COLONIES
- Sydney Heads
- CHAPTER IX INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
- Robert Southey
- William Wordsworth
- Alfred Tennyson (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry)
- Robert Browning (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry)
- Charles Dickens (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry)
- W. M. Thackeray (From a Drawing by Samuel Lawrence)
- Charlotte Brontë
- Lord Macaulay
- Thomas Carlyle
- William Whewell, D.D.
- Sir David Brewster
- Sir James Simpson
- Michael Faraday
- David Livingstone
- Sir John Franklin
- John Ruskin (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry)
- Dean Stanley
- "I was sick, and ye visited me."
- CHAPTER X PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE FROM 1887 TO 1897
- Duke of Connaught
- The Imperial Institute
- Duke of Clarence (From a Photograph by Lafayette, Dublin)
- Duke of York (From a Photograph by Russell & Sons, Baker Street, W)
- Duchess of York (From a Photograph by Russell & Sons, Baker Street, W)
- Princess Henry of Battenberg (From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde, Isle of Wight)
- Prince Henry of Battenberg (From a Photograph by Hughes & Mullins, Ryde, Isle of Wight)
- The Czarina of Russia
- H. M. Stanley
- Dr. Fridtjof Nansen
- Miss Kingsley
- J. M. Barrie
- Richard Jefferies
- Professor Huxley (From a Photograph by the London Stereoscopic Co)
- Professor Tyndall (From a Photograph by Alexander Bassano, Ltd)
- C. H. Spurgeon
- Dr. Horatius Bonar
- Rev. J. G. Wood
- Dean Church
- J. E. Millais, P.R.A. (From a Photograph by Elliott & Fry)
- Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A. (From a Photograph by J. R. Mayall, Piccadilly, W)
- CHAPTER XI
- Part I
- Wesley preaching on his father's tomb
- Group of Presidents Number One
- Centenary Meeting at Manchester
- Wesleyan Centenary Hall
- Group of Presidents Number Two
- Part II
- 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
- Group of Presidents Number Three
- CONCLUSION
- Footnotes
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