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Strickland, Agnes, and Elisabeth Strickland. Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman Conquest. 16 vols. London: Bell, 1840-48. 5 vols. New York: Miller, 1843. 12 vols., London: Colburn, 1844-49. Rev. ed., 8 vols., London: Colburn, 1851. 12 vols., Philadelphia, 1859; 1864; 1869; 1877 (abridged); 1882; 1885. Abridged ed.: Lives of the Queens of England. From the Norman Conquest. 1 vol., London: Bell & Daldy, 1864; 1867. New York: Harper, 1867; Knox, 1885; 1886. 6 vols., London, New York, and Bombay: Bell, 1882; 1883; 1884; 1889; 1893. Edited by Caroline G. Parker. New York: Harper, 1883; 1889; 1892. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1892; 1893; Barrie, 1902-03. 6 vols., London: Nash, 1905; Bell, 1904-8. Rosalie Kaufman's abridgement, 3 vols., Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1882-84. Chicago and New York: Werner; Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1895. Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1903.

British Library. 1851: Portrait of Agnes Strickland, frontis. (J. Hayes, 1846, eng. F.C. Lewis; signed by Strickland). Preface: “The actual degree of beauty represented is no positive criterion of the charms of the original but depends in a great measure on the state of the arts, and the ability of the” artist. The revised edition won't replace “the well-thumbed copies of the first familiar editions” (ix-x). “Documentary historians alone can appreciate the difficulties, the expense, the injury to health, to say nothing of the sacrifice of more profitable literary pursuits. . . . The hope that the Lives of the Queens of England [sic] might be regarded as a national undertaking, honourable to the female character, and generally useful to society, encouraged us to the completion of the task” (x). “The queens of England were not the shadowy queens of tragedy or romance. . . . They were the queens of real life” xvi). Dated Reydon Hall, Suffolk, 1851, followed by engraving of Reydon Hall. Introduction: “No other princess has, however, been enthroned in this land under such auspicious circumstances as our present sovereign lady”--one of few queens regnant (1). “A united nation uplifted in assent” at Victoria's coronation (2). Clumsy illustrations, not overlapping with those in Howitt, Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England , also pub. in 1851. The one-volume 1867 edition New York: Harper, 1867; includes the first illustration from the complete edition, Matilda of Flanders., as the sole illustration.

TOC: Vol. 2: Isabella of Valois; Joanna of Navarre; Katherine of Valois; Margaret of Anjou; Elizabeth Woodville; Anne of Warwick; Elizabeth of York; Katherine of Arragon; Anne Boleyn.

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