Identifier: somefamouswome00crei (find matches)
Title: Some famous women
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Creighton, Louise, 1850-1936
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Longmans
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
pass received her with an enthusiasm whichdeeply touched her. She said on her return toBuckingham Palace that she was very tired but veryhappy. The same enthusiasm attended other celebra-tions in connection with the Jubilee. In her old agethe Queen Avas as popular, perhaps even more popular,than she had been in her 3outh. People in all thewide lands which made up the British Empire felt thatshe was the outward sign of the unity of the Empire.They venerated her for her long and blameless life^devoted to duty. In far distant lands, black andsavage people honoured the great white Queen andtrusted in her justice. After the Jubilee, she went about a little more andsaw more people ; she visited Berlin, and spent sometime in the south of Europe each year. She receivedmany royal visitors, and once more there were concertsand dramatic performances at court. In spite of herage she still gave as much attention as ever to business,and would spend two or three hours a day going QUEEN VICTORIA 191
Text Appearing After Image:
192 SOME FAMOUS WOMEN through papers, and signing her name to publicdocuments. In 1897 when she had reigned sixty years, her second,or diamond, Jubilee was celebrated. This time a ijreatstate procession was made all through London, and onreaching St. Pauls Cathedral, the Queens carriagepaused at the bottom of the steps for a brief service ofthankso^iving:. Her last years were clouded by the war in South Africa.Amidst all the gloom that followed on the news of thedisasters suffered there by the English troops, theQueen never despaired of ultimate success. She tookevery opportunity of showing her sympathy with hersoldiers, and telling them of her gratitude for theirexertions. The war was not over when she began toshow signs of failing health. One of the last thingsshe did was to receive Lord Roberts, to hear from himabout the state of things in Africa. Little more than aweek afterwards she died, at the age of eighty-one. When we think over her long life and the greatposition she filled,

Note About Images