Victoria, Empress of Germany

MAW 's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith , Sir J. M. Barrie , and Henry James. James wrote to her...

LV 's final major work, the historical novel Oswald von Wolkenstein: A Memoir of the Last Minnesinger of Tirol, was published by J. M. Dent and Company . LV wrote it at Florence and...

Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1871-1878 appeared in print.

Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess 1878-1885 was published.

Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and Her Eldest Daughter 1886-1901, the sixth volume in the series, appeared.

Despite the geographical distances between QV and her married children, she maintained contact with them through her voluminous correspondence. She and her eldest daughter, Crown Princess Victoria , wrote especially regularly, often several times a...

After a twelve-hour labour, QV gave birth to her first child: Victoria Adelaide Mary Louise, Princess Royal .

QV 's eldest daughter, Crown Princess Victoria , married Prince Frederick of Prussia .

QV 's eldest daughter, Princess Victoria of Prussia , gave birth a year after her marriage to a son nicknamed Willie, who later became Kaiser Wilhelm II .

Dearest Child: The Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal 1858-1861, the first of six volumes, was published.

Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864 appeared.

Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1865-1871 was published.

Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...

MBL emphasised the Empress Frederick 's strong interest in literature, art, and religion. She liked the fact that the empress insisted, on a visit to England, on meeting George Eliot .

The college was founded by the Teachers' Training and Registration Society in Bishopsgate Street, London, in order to ensure a sufficient number of competent teachers. In 1885 the Training College moved to a more...