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Hibbert, Christopher.
Daily Life in Victorian England
. New York: American Heritage Publishing Company, 1975.

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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2001.

Hudson, Katherine.
A Royal Conflict: Sir John Conroy and the Young Victoria
. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994.

Mitchell, Sally.
Daily Life in Victorian England
. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Plowden, Alison.
The Young Victoria
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.

Strachey, Lytton.
Queen Victoria
. London: Chatto & Windus, 1921.

Vallone, Lynne.
Becoming Victoria
. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901.
The girlhood of Queen Victoria; a selection from Her Majesty's diaries between the years 1832 and 1840
, vol i. & vol ii, edited by Viscount Reginald Esher. New York, Longmans, Green & Co.; London, J. Murray, 1912.

For more about England during Victoria's teenage years:

www.pbs.org/empires/victoria/history/index.html

For more about fashion in Victoria's time:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1830s_in_fashion

For more about food in Victoria's time:

www.victoriana.com/victorianfood/

For more about Victoria's coronation, ladies-in-waiting, and other royal attendants, visit Yvonne's Royalty Home Page:

users.uniserve.com/~canyon/index.htm

For more about Victoria's wedding:

www.queenvictoria.victoriana.com/RoyalWeddings/Queen-Victoria-Wedding.html

To read Lytton Strachey's 1921 biography of Queen Victoria online:

womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/ls/bl_lsqv_02.htm

To find out more about important people in Victoria's life, look them up on Wikipedia:

Her mother: see
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Her half brother, Charles: see
Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen

Her sister, Feodore (Fidi): see
Princess Feodora of Leiningen

Her uncle, Leopold: see
Leopold I of Belgium

Her prime minister, Lord Melbourne: see
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Melbourne's wife: see
Lady Caroline Lamb

Her mistress of the robes: see
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland

Her chaperone: see
Lady Flora Hastings

Her dearest Daisy: see
Louise Lehzen

And to find out more about Sir John Conroy, read this article:

www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_heroes/hist_hero_conroy.html

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Meyer, Carolyn.

Victoria rebels / Carolyn Meyer. —1st ed.

p. cm.

“A Paula Wiseman Book.”

Summary: Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4169-8729-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4424-2246-9 (eBook)

1. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901—Childhood and youth—Juvenile fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—1800–1837—Juvenile fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Juvenile fiction. [1. Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1901—Childhood and youth—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—1800–1837—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Victoria, 1837–1901—Fiction. 4. Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction. 5. Courts and courtiers—Fiction. 6. Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819–1861—Fiction. 7. Diaries—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M5685Vic 2013

[Fic]—dc23

2012023255

Author's Note: Queen Victoria's diaries have provided much of the inspiration for this book. Victoria frequently used capitalization and underlining in her diary for emphasis, and I have kept that style throughout the text. These passages are fictional representations and are not meant to be direct quotes of Victoria's.