The girlhood of Queen Victoria
Subtitle: a selection from Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840
By: Edited by Viscount Esher.
Contributors: Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount, 1852-1930.
Publisher: J. Murray
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London
Subjects: Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Sources; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1815-1848
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter I
title: 1832
pagenum: 42
description: Journey by St. Albans, Dunstable, Coventry, and Birmingham to Welshpool-Arrival at Powis Castle-At Beaumaris-Visit to Baron Hill-Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley-At Plas Newydd-Journey to Eaton-Visit to Lord and Lady Westminster-The Grosvenor family-Visit to Chatsworth-The Cavendish family-Expedition to Haddon Hall-Visit to Alton Towers-A hunting episode-Visit to Wytham Abbey-A day in Oxford-Back to Kensington-Christmas presents.; label: Chapter II
title: 1833
pagenum: 63
description: Arrival of 'Dash'-Various lessons-At the Opera-Kenilworth ballet-Life at Kensington-Recreations-Dinner party for the King; and the guests-The Opera and Taglioni-Somerset House Exhibition-The Duke of Orleans-Fourteenth birthday-Presents-A birthday ball-Alexander and Ernest of Würtemberg-Paganini and Malibran-Journey to Portsmouth-At Norris Castle-On board the Emerald-Visit to the Victory-Journey to Plymouth-Presentation of Colours-The Queen of Portugal-Spanish affairs-At Drury Lane-A lecture on physics.; label: Chapter III
title: 1834
pagenum: 91
description: The Order of Maria Louisa - At the Opera - Anna Boulena and Othello - Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg - Feodore, Princess von Hohenlohe-Langenburg and her children - Visit to Windsor - The King and Queen - Portuguese affairs - At St. Leonards - A carriage accident - Death of the Duke of Gloucester - A fine sermon.; label: Chapter IV
title: 1835
pagenum: 107
description: At St. Leonards - A shipwreck - Lessons - Back to Kensington - Death of the Duke of Leuchtenberg - Opera Otello - Visit to Windsor - A concert - Grisi, Lablache, and Tamburini - Sixteenth birthday - Presents - Eton Montem - At the opera - Death of Countess Mensdorff - Confirmation - Ceremony at St. James's - First Communion - At Tunbridge Wells - Races - Reading - Back to Kensington - Duc de Nemours - Journey to Bishopthorpe - Harcourt family - York Minster - At Canterbury - Ramsgate - The King and Queen of the Belgians.; label: Chapter V
title: 1836
pagenum: 190
description: At Ramsgate - Back to Kensington - Change of rooms - Marriage of the Queen of Portugal - A dinner party - The theatre - Kemble and Macready - Helen Faucit - Charles Mathews - Visit to Windsor - State ball - Princes Ferdinand and Augustus - King Leopold's Directions - Visit of Ernest and Albert of Saxe-Coburg - Their characteristics and charms - Seventeenth birthday - The British Gallery - The Victoria Asylum - Lablache - At Claremont - Portuguese revolution - Events in Lisbon.; label: Chapter VI
title: 1837
pagenum: 183
description: Gipsies - M. Van de Weyer - Books read - Opera I Puritani - Death of Lady de L'Isle - The Drawing-room - An address from Lincoln - Eighteenth birthday - Ball at St. James's - Stockmar - The King's illness and death - News of the Accession - The first Council - Lord Melbourne - The Proclamation - Official business - Visit to Windsor - Queen Adelaide - Addresses - Audiences - Household appointments - The King's funeral - Conferring Orders - Leaving Kensington Palace - Settling into Buckingham Palace.; label: Chapter VII
title: 1837 (continued)
pagenum: 213
description: Chapter of the Garter - Cabinet Council - Thalberg - State visit to House of Lords - Order of St. Catherine - Anxiety about elections - Trying horses - Windsor - The King of Würtemburg - Visit of King Leopold - Talks with Lord Melbourne - A game of chess - Departure of the King and Queen of the Belgians - A review at Windsor - Queen Adelaide - Perasi of Lord Melbourne - At Brighton - Unfortunate state of Portugal - Changes at Buckingham Palace - Lord Mayor's Dinner - Popularity with the crowd - The Queen's Speech - State visit to the House of Lords - Debates on the Address - Pensions - Lord Melbourne on Education - Landseer's pictures - Conversations with Lord Melbourne - Lord Brougham's attacks - Magnetism - The Privy Purse - Character formation - Windsor.; label: Chapter VIII
title: January and February, 1838
pagenum: 249
description: Lord Melbourne's family - Riding - Canadian difficulties - The Secretary at War - Lord Melbourne on music - Lord Durham and Canada - The State of Greece - Lord Melbourne on various people - And on Wellington - Punishments - Army difficulties - The Waverley Novels - Sir John Colborne - The Fitzclarence pensions - Lady Falkland - Lord Melbourne on historics - Whig doctrine - Lord Melbourne on recommendations - Charles Kean in Hamlet - Dolls - English Kings - Sheriff-pricking - Canada Government Bill - Shakespeare plays - Government difficulties - The Ballot question and Lord J. Russell - Wellington's manner - Lord Tavistock - Troops in Canada - Lord Ellenborough - Peerage ceremonial - Princess Charlotte - Duchess of Sutherland - Public School education - Enthusiasm - William IV.'s dislikes - Ballot Question - Anecdote of George IV. - Children and relations - A Russian custom - A Levée - Pensions - Court etiquette - Lord Howe and Queen Adelaide - The question of Marriage.; label: Chapter IX
title: March, April, and May, 1838
pagenum: 291
description: Bulwer's plays - Canadian prisoners - Jamaican slavery - An Investiture - Commission on Promotions - Portuguese affairs - A long ride - Lord and Lady Holland - Talk on railways - Lady Burghersh - Lord Byron - Duke and Duchess of Gloucester - Gallery of Portraits - Madame de Staël - Brougham's oddities - Death of Louis - The Royal Family - Soult - Lady Charlotte Bury - The Hertford family - Carlton House and Court parties - Queen Anne - George IV.'s favourites - Artists - A State ball - The Church of Ireland - Useless motions.; label: Chapter IX
title: March, April, and May, 1838
pagenum: 291
description: Bulwer's plays - Canadian prisoners - Jamaican slavery - An Investiture - Commission on Promotions - Portuguese affairs - A long ride - Lord and Lady Holland - Talk on railways - Lady Burghersh - Lord Byron - Duke and Duchess of Gloucester - Gallery of Portraits - Madame de Staël - Brougham's oddities - Death of Louis - The Royal Family - Soult - Lady Charlotte Bury - The Hertford family - Carlton House and Court parties - Queen Anne - George IV.'s favourites - Artists - A State ball - The Church of Ireland - Useless motions.; label: Chapter X
title: June, July, and August, 1838
pagenum: 321
description: Thunderstorms - Lord Durham - Don Giovanni - New Zealand - Eton Montem - Lord Barham - Miss Chaworth and Byron - Lord Melbourne's household - Visit to Eton - King Leopold's position - Lord Melbourne's reminiscences - Public School education - Irish legal difficulties - O'Connell - Eton and Ascot - South Sea Co. - The Order of the Bath - Coronation Honours - Lord Melbourne and the Garter - Marshal Soult - Coronation Day - Procession to Westminster - The ceremony - The procession - After the Coronation - The peerage - Illuminations - Lord Melbourne on the ceremony - Kings and usurpers - Review in Hyde Park - Popularity of enemies - Soult at Eton - Family questions - Sir E. Lyons - Prince Royal of Bavaria - Dukedoms - The Sheridan family - Lady Seymour - Lord Shelburne's marriage - A dinner party and reception - George III.'s sons - And his illnesses - Lady Sarah Lennox - Mehemet Ali - Lord Melbourne and King Leopold - Statues - The Queen's Speech - Lord Melbourne on Lord Brougham - Wellington - Belgium and Holland dispute - The Irish - Persian affairs - Pozzo di Borgo - Lord Howick - Belgian affairs - Russian influence - Jewels - Duke of Sussex - Lord North - Mexican affairs - Concerning books - Lady Holland - George III.'s Prime Ministers - Colonial policy.