Victoria (1819-1901) was queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 and empress of India from 1876 to 1901. She presided over the expansion of England into an empire of 4 million square mile...
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The woman who gave her name to a great age of English prose was herself competent in the craft. Unfortunately, her daughter Beatrice destroyed her major work, the 122 volumes of journal that she kept ...
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