Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria by Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1895. Roberts Brothers. 1st Edition.

“In 1837 her people had looked to her with the enthusiasm of hope; in 1887 they looked upon her with the enthusiasm of gratitude, with the memory of fifty wonderful years behind them, griefs and joys in common, common pride in the greatness and glories of England, common shame for her shortcomings.” 

Among the famous female monarchs of European History, Maria Theresa of Austria, Isabella of Spain, Catherine the Great of Russia, the British add Queen Victoria. 

The last monarch of House Hanover, Victoria eclipsed her predecessors with immense technological advancement and forged the British Empire. 

Millicent Garrett Fawcett, suffragist and one of the most prominent campaigners for women’s rights in her time, here dedicates herself to the study of Queen Victoria. 

Fawcett was ahead of her time, and her ideas about her queen are a fantastic hybrid between modern ideas and Victorian sensibilities.