Walter L Arnstein

This book is based on another powerful political figure of the nineteenth century – Millicent Garrett Fawcett. It illuminates the biography and career of Millicent, known by contemporaries principally for her commitment to women's suffrage and her particular approach to it.

This volume focuses on Annie Besant, an iconic female political figure from the Victorian era. It will be vital to those studying Nineteenth-Century Studies, Women's History, the History of Suffrage and the History of Nursing.

This book is based on the most powerful political figure of the nineteenth century – Queen of England and Empress of India, Victoria Regina. It illuminates the biography and career of the queen by selecting and reprinting relevant extracts from rare contemporary sources.

This book features the perspectives of contemporaries of Victorian political figure, Florence Nightingale, who saw in her life and career a legend in the making, one of greater depth and relevance than that created by the popular imagination.

In this engaging study, Walter L. Arnstein explores both the private life and the public role of the young princess who inherited Britain's throne as a teenager and who became the octogenarian symbolic head of the largest empire in the history of the world. Arnstein incorporates the findings of past studies and recent research (including articles of his own based on previously unpublished letters and journals) to shed light on often-neglected aspects of Victoria's life and reign: her concern with gender roles, religion, politics, and Ireland; as well as her involvement with both the controversial domestic issues and the great international conflicts of the era. Wherever the historical evidence allows, Arnstein enables the monarch to speak in her own words, demonstrating that Victoria was not only the queen who became an adjective, but also a highly-quotable, multi-dimensional human being. Concise, authoritative and attractively illustrated, Queen Victoria provides the economic, social, cultural and political background knowledge to make the life of this fascinating monarch intelligible even to readers unfamiliar with her now distant world.