More Leaves From the Journal of a Life in the Highlands

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 1848-1861 & More Leaves, 1862-1882. Queen Victoria is the only British monarch to have published personal, often intimate, details of her family life and her private emotions.  The Introduction places the Queen's writing in the context of literary and artistic productions of the period and gives sometimes surprising details of what is occurring-such as the Clearances and the Hunger-at the time of the entries