"Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen" in 2 volumes is a biographical account of the British Queen Victoria written by the Scottish novelist Sarah Tytler. Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 until her death. She adopted the additional title of Empress of India in 1876. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
Volume 1:
Sixty-three Years Since
Childhood
Youth
The Accession
The Proroguing of Parliament, the Visit to Guildhall, and the Coronation
The Maiden Queen
The Betrothal
The Marriage
A Royal Pair
Royal Occupations – An Attempt on the Queen's Life
The First Christening – The Season of 1841
Birth of the Prince of Wales – The Afghan Disasters – Visit of the King of Prussia – The Queen's Plantagenet Ball
Fresh Attempts against the Queen's Life – Mendelssohn – Death of the Duc D'orleans
The Queen's First Visit to Scotland
A Marriage, a Death, and a Birth in the Royal Family…
Volume 2:
Royal Progresses to Burghley, Stowe, and Strathfieldsaye
The Queen's Powder Ball
The Queen's First Visit to Germany
Railway Speculation – Failure of the Potato Crop – Sir Robert Peel's Resolutions – Birth of Princess Helena – Visit of Ibrahim Pasha
Autumn Yachting Excursions – The Spanish Marriages – Winter Visits
Installation of Prince Albert as Chancellor of Cambridge
The Queen's Visit to the Western Islands of Scotland and Stay at Ardverikie
The French Fugitives – The People's Charter
The Queen's First Stay at Balmoral
Public and Domestic Interests – Fresh Attack upon the Queen
The Queen's First Visit to Ireland
Scotland Again – Glasgow and Dee-side
The Opening of the New Coal Exchange – The Death of Queen Adelaide
Preparation for the Exhibition – Birth of the Duke of Connaught…

Sarah Tytler (real name Henrietta Keddie, 1827-1914) was a prolific Scottish novelist whose domestic realism became popular with women, as did her conduct books for girls. Many of her novels had an 18th-century background, including Citoyenne Jacqueline (1865) set in the French Revolution. Keddie also did educational work, such as Musical Composers and their Works (1875) and The Old Masters and their Pictures for the Use of Schools and Learners in Art (1880), and biographical compendia such as Six Royal Ladies of the House of Hanover (1898).