Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 13103-h.htm or 13103-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/1/0/13103/13103-h/13103-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/1/0/13103/13103-h.zip) GREAT BRITAIN AND HER QUEEN by ANNE E. KEELING Author of "General Gordon: Hero and Saint," "The Oakhurst Chronicles," "Andrew Golding," etc. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged, 1897 [Illustration: Queen Victoria] [Illustration: Claremont] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE GIRL QUEEN AND HER KINGDOM CHAPTER II. STORM AND SUNSHINE CHAPTER III. FRANCE AND ENGLAND CHAPTER IV. THE CRIMEAN WAR CHAPTER V. INDIA CHAPTER VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF SORROWS CHAPTER VII. CHANGES GOOD AND EVIL CHAPTER VIII. OUR COLONIES CHAPTER IX. INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL PROGRESS CHAPTER X. PROGRESS OF THE EMPIRE FROM 1887 TO 1897 CHAPTER XI. PROGRESS OF WESLEYAN METHODISM UNDER QUEEN VICTORIA, 1837-1897 CONCLUSION LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Queen Victoria Claremont The Coronation of Queen Victoria Kensington Palace Duchess of Kent Elizabeth Fry Rowland Hill Father Mathew George Stephenson Wheatstone St. James's Palace Prince Albert The Queen in Her Wedding-Dress Sir Robert Peel Daniel O'Connell Richard Cobden John Bright Lord John Russell Thomas Chalmers John Henry Newmann Balmoral Buckingham Palace Napoleon III The Crystal Palace, 1851 Lord Ashley Earl of Derby Duke of Wellington Florence Nightingale Lord Canning Sir Colin Campbell Henry Havelock Sir John Lawrence Windsor Castle Prince Frederick William Princess Royal Charles Kingsley Lord Palmerston Abraham Lincoln and his son Princess Alice The Mausoleum Dr. Norman Macleod Prince of Wales Princess of Wales Osborne House Sir Robert Napier Mr. Gladstone Lord Beaconsfield Lord Salisbury General Gordon Duke of Albany Duchess of Albany Sydney Heads Robert Southey William Wordsworth Alfred Tennyson Robert Browning Charles Dickens W. M. Thackeray Charlotte Brontë Lord Macaulay Thomas Carlyle William Whewell, D.D. Sir David Brewster Sir James Y. Simpson Michael Faraday David Livingstone Sir John Franklin John Ruskin Dean Stanley "I was sick, and ye visited me" Duke of Connaught The Imperial Institute Duke of Clarence Duke of York Duchess of York Princess Henry of Battenberg Prince Henry of Battenberg The Czarina of Russia H. M. Stanley Dr. Fridtjof Nansen Miss Kingsley J. M. Barrie Richard Jefferies Rev. J. G. Wood Dean Church Professor Huxley Professor Tyndall C. H. Spurgeon Dr. Horatius Bonar Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A. Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A. Wesley preaching on his father's tomb Group of Presidents:--No. 1 Centenary Meeting at Manchester Key to Centenary Meeting Wesleyan Centenary Hall Group of Presidents:--No. 2 Sir Francis Lycett The Methodist Settlement, Bermondsey. London, S.E. Theological Institution, Richmond Theological Institution, Didsbury Theological Institution, Headingley