The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these...
Violence
Queen Victoria
An assassination attempt was made on QV
, pregnant with her first child, as she and Albert
drove in an open carriage.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Wealth and Poverty
Adelaide O'Keeffe
In the same year the Royal Literary Fund
paid her another twenty pounds and Prince Albert
personally sent her five pounds.