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Victoria

1819–1901

Victoria became queen of the United Kingdom in 1837 and reigned until 1901. Her reign coincided with industrialisation, imperial expansion, political reform and the gradual development of a more recognisably constitutional monarchy.

Her marriage to Prince Albert strongly shaped court life, and her prolonged mourning after his death influenced both her public image and the culture associated with the Victorian era. Victoria was born in Kensington Palace and died in Osborne House.

Peter Ackroyd’s Dominion starts in the difficult aftermath of Waterloo and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. Hourly History’s Queen Victoria follows the monarch whose sixty-three-year reign became synonymous with Britain’s industrial growth, imperial expansion and changing social values. Additional non-fiction treatment of Victoria comes from Lawrence James’ Raj, Lawrence James’ The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Julian Spilsbury’s The Thin Red Line, M. J. Carter’s The Three Emperors, and Captivating History’s The Victorian Era.

Periods

Periods linked to Victoria

Second Boer War1899–1902 CE Victorian & Edwardian Britain1837–1914 CE Victorian Era1837–1901 CE

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Victoria (11 series)

Soldier of the Queen in Order

by Griff Hosker 6 books 4.5(8,768)

Soldier of the Queen follows the Roberts family through the late Victorian and Edwardian imperial army. The books move from Rorke’s Drift and Egypt to Sudan, oil interests, desert garrisons and pre-war diplomacy, showing imperial soldiering as a mixture of danger, ambition, family strain and long overseas service.

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The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels in Order

by Anne Perry 32 books 4.3(47,868)

The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels begin in 1881, when Inspector Thomas Pitt investigates murders in the respectable Cater Street household of Charlotte Ellison. Their marriage develops alongside thirty-two cases that lead Pitt from ordinary police work into Special Branch and bring Charlotte’s knowledge of upper-class society into…

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Railway Detective in Order

by Edward Marston 24 books 4.3(46,124)

The Railway Detective series follows Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming from 1851 through the expanding railway network of Victorian Britain. Colbeck, a former barrister with a deep interest in locomotives and engineering, investigates robberies, derailments, disappearances and murders whose methods depend on timetables, stations and…

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Morland Dynasty in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 36 books 4.4(27,265)

The Morland Dynasty is a thirty-six-book family saga tracing the fictional Morlands of Yorkshire from 1434 to the approach of the Second World War. Beginning with the marriage of Robert Morland and Eleanor, a ward of the Beaufort family, the sequence follows successive generations as Morland Place grows…

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The Flashman Papers in Order

by George MacDonald Fraser 12 books 4.2(80,547)

The Flashman Papers present the supposed memoirs of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, the bully expelled from Rugby School in Tom Brown’s School Days who becomes a decorated Victorian soldier despite being a coward, liar, opportunist and sexual predator. George MacDonald Fraser places this fictional witness inside documented nineteenth-century…

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‘Twas on the China Station in Order

by Andrew Wareham 2 books 4.4(2,352)

The ‘Twas on the China Station series follows George Mayhew as he leaves naval life and builds a merchant house in Shanghai during the violent transformation of mid-nineteenth-century China. Beginning in 1850, the novels place commercial ambition beside the Taiping Rebellion, Qing political weakness and the expanding power…

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The Esther & Jack Enright Mysteries in Order

by David Field 13 books 4.3(8,301)

The Esther & Jack Enright Mysteries follow seamstress-turned-investigator Esther and police officer Jack Enright from the Whitechapel murders of 1888 into the early Edwardian period. Assisted—and frequently endangered—by Jack’s unconventional uncle Percy, the family investigates murder, corruption, political conspiracy and crimes ignored by official institutions. The thirteen novels…

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Zulu Hart in Order

by Saul David 3 books 4.3(384)

The George Hart novels follow a fictional soldier of mixed Irish and Zulu ancestry through the wars, politics and prejudices of the late Victorian Empire. George’s uncertain relationship with the British military establishment gives him access to power while his appearance and maternal heritage repeatedly expose the racism…

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Goff Family War Thrillers in Order

by Max Hennessy 3 books 4.4(7,196)

The Goff Family War Thrillers form a three-volume military family saga spanning the Crimean War, the high Victorian empire, the First World War and the Second World War. Successive generations serve the same cavalry tradition even as horses and lances give way to machine guns, armoured vehicles and…

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Ibis Trilogy in Order

by Amitav Ghosh 3 books 4.1(60,349)

The Ibis Trilogy, written by acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh, is an epic historical fiction series comprising Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire (2015). Set in the 1830s, the sweeping narrative centers on the Ibis—a repurposed slave ship—and traces the devastating geopolitical…

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Kirov Trilogy in Order

by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 3 books 4.2(935)

The Kirov Trilogy follows three generations connected with the fictional Kirov family against the splendour and violence of Imperial Russia. Beginning in 1803, the sequence moves from the Napoleonic invasion through the Crimean War to the First World War and the Russian Revolution, linking English heroines with a…

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Standalone books

Standalone books featuring Victoria (2 books)

Non Fiction

Non Fiction featuring Victoria (21 books)

Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.