English diarists: Queen Victoria, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Pepys, Kenneth Williams, Siegfried Sassoon, John Wesley, Michael Palin, Diana Mitford, Tony Benn, Isaac Ambrose, Frances Burney, Arnold Bennett, Alan Bennett, Derek Jarman, Barbara Castle

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 131. Chapters: Queen Victoria, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Pepys, Kenneth Williams, Siegfried Sassoon, John Wesley, Michael Palin, Diana Mitford, Tony Benn, Isaac Ambrose, Frances Burney, Arnold Bennett, Alan Bennett, Derek Jarman, Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, Marianne Faithfull, John Evelyn, David Blunkett, Alan Clark, Harriet Arbuthnot, Cecil Beaton, Kenneth Tynan, Cavalié Mercer, Henry Channon, E. M. Delafield, Anthony Powell, Nancy Price, Richard Crossman, Harold Nicolson, Bulstrode Whitelocke, James Woodforde, Hannah Cullwick, David Pearce, Thomas Turner, Philip Henslowe, Violet Bonham Carter, Philip Henry, Clare Frewen Sheridan, George Brown, Barclay Fox, Grace Mildmay, W. N. P. Barbellion, Jock Colville, Henry Teonge, Joseph Farington, Edward Ellerker Williams, Mel Giedroyc, Charles Greville, Frances Partridge, Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet, Charlotte Bury, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, George Cartwright, Dorothy Wordsworth, Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet, James Lees-Milne, Francis Kilvert, Mary Gladstone, Anthony Powell Society, Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle, Liz Jones, Evelyn, Princess Blücher, A. C. Benson, Arthur Munby, Caroline Fox, Thomas Raikes, Thomas Coningsby, Ambrose Serle, Narcissus Luttrell, Frances Stevenson, John Thomlinson, Denton Welch, Nehemiah Wallington, Walter Gale, John Manningham, Elizabeth Bury, Richard Symonds, Jean Redcliffe-Maud, Tom Reynolds, Roger Morrice, Nella Last, Richard Madox, Thomas Thistlewood, Joseph Romilly, Henry Machyn, Edward Walter Hamilton, Walter Yonge of Colyton, Emily Shore, Nicholas Cresswell, Nicholas Assheton, Lady Margaret Hoby, William Holland, Nicholas Blundell, Rae Earl, Ralph Josselin, Charlotte Grove, Richard Cocks. Excerpt: Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 ¿ 22 January 1901) was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke of Kent and the King died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her German-born mother Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She inherited the throne at the age of 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. The United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy, in which the Sovereign held relatively few direct political powers. Privately, she attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments. Publicly, she became a national icon, and was identified with strict standards of personal morality. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in 1840. Their 9 children and 26 of their 42 grandchildren married into royal and noble families across the continent, tying them together and earning her the nickname "the grandmother of Europe". After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. Her reign of 63 years and 7 months, which is longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history, is known as the Victorian era. It was a period...