Empresses
Here are entered works on women rulers of empires as well as on wives or consorts of emperors.
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Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns and Illustrious Women (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1870), by Mrs. Jameson, ed. by Mary E. Hewitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Two Years in the Forbidden City, by Princess Der Ling (Gutenberg text)
- Forbidden City (New York: Crown Publishers, c1954), by Muriel Molland Jernigan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Marie: A Story of Russian Love, by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, trans. by Marie H. de Zielinska (Gutenberg text)
- Memoirs of Countess Golovine, a Lady at the Court of Catherine II (London: D. Nutt, 1910), by V. N. Golovina, ed. by Kazimierz Waliszewski, trans. by Grace Muriel Fox-Davies
- Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011), by V. I︠U︡. Proskurina (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Queens- Memoirs of Royal Ladies (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Emily Sarah Holt
- Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns and Illustrious Women (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1870), by Mrs. Jameson, ed. by Mary E. Hewitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Vassal-Queens and Some Contemporary Women in the Roman Empire (Johns Hopkins Studies in Archaeology #22; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1937), by Grace Harriet Macurdy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Deirdre of the Sorrows, by J. M. Synge (Gutenberg text)
- The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale (London: Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1894), by Ford Madox Ford, illust. by Edward Coley Burne-Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Eileen's Journey: History in Fairyland (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Ernest Arthur Jelf, illust. by Laura Troubridge (page images at Florida)
- Madame Tabby's Establishment (London and New York: Macmillan, 1886), by Kari, illust. by Louis Wain (page images at Florida)
- Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Annals of the Queens of Spain, From the Period of the Conquest of the Goths Down to the Reign of Her Present Majesty Isabel II (New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850), by Anita George (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1968), by Julian Markels (PDF at Ohio State)
- The British Monarchy on Screen (Manchester, UK: Manchest University Press, c2016), ed. by Mandy Merck
- An Answer to a Question that Nobody Thinks of, viz. But What if the Queen Should Die? (published anonymously in 1713, but attributed to Defoe; this copy from an 1855 collection), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
- Elucubrazioni Storico-Diplomatiche su Giovanna I.a, Regina di Napoli e Carlo III di Durazzo (in Italian; Salerno: Tip. Nazionale, 1889), by Matteo Camera
- Margherita of Savoy, First Queen of Italy: Her Life and Times (London: Mills and Boon, 1914), by Fanny Zampini-Salazar, contrib. by Richard Bagot (page images at HathiTrust)
- Kings and Queens I Have Known (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Elena Văcărescu
- The Life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, Duchess d'Alençon and de Berry, Sister of Francis I., King of France (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854), by Martha Walker Freer
- The Life of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, Duchess d'Alençon and de Berry, Sister of Francis I., King of France, and Author of "The Heptameron" (2 volumes; Cleveland: Burrows Bros., 1895), by Martha Walker Freer (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Famous French Women (London et al.: Cassell, 1907), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- La Vie Intime d'une Reine de France au XVIIe Siècle (in French; Paris: Calmann-Lévy, ca. 1906), by Louis Batiffol
- The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII (3 volumes; London: S. Bagster; New York: J. Pott, 1902), by Miss Pardoe
- Marie de Médicis and the French Court in the XVIIth Century (translation of "Vie Intime d'une Reine de France..."; London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Louis Batiffol, ed. by H. W. Carless Davis, trans. by Mary King (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Vie de Marie de Médicis, Princesse de Toscane, Reine de France et de Navarre (3 volumes, in French; Paris: Ruault, 1774), by Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus Thiroux d'Arconville (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 (c2009), by Jeri L. McIntosh (HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)
- Bloody Mary (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1955), by Theodore Maynard (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Spanish Marriage (index omitted; c1933), by Helen Simpson (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
- The Reign of Mary Tudor (Everyman's Library edition, ca. 1910), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by W. Llewelyn Williams (Gutenberg text and page images)
- La Révolte du Conte de Warwick Contre le Roi Edward IV / Revolt of the Earl of Warwick Against King Edward IV, Now First Published From a MS. Preserved in the Public Library of Ghent; To Which is Added French Letter Concerning Lady Jane Gray and Queen Mary, Published From a Bruges MS. (in French, with English notes; London: Pub. for the Caxton Society by A. Black, 1849), ed. by J. A. Giles (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (from the Makers of History series; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Mystery of Mary Stuart (new edition; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Queen Mary's Book: A Collection of Poems and Essays by Mary, Queen of Scots (London: G. Bell and sons, 1907), by Mary, Queen of Scots, ed. by Ada Jane Evelyn Arbuthnot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Philippa of Hainault and Her Times (London: J. Long, 1910), by Blanche C. Hardy
- From Memory's Shrine: The Reminscences of Carmen Sylva (H. M. Queen Elisabeth of Roumania) (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1911), by Carmen Sylva, trans. by Edith Hopkirk (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Kings and Queens I Have Known (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Elena Văcărescu
- The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen (2 volumes; Toronto: G. Virtue. c1885), by Sarah Tytler, contrib. by Ronald Sutherland Gower
- The Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen (2 volumes; Toronto: G. Virtue. c1885), by Sarah Tytler, contrib. by Ronald Sutherland Gower
- Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood (Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1883), by Grace Greenwood
- Queen Victoria: Scenes From Her Life and Reign (London et al.: Blackie, 1901), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Victorian Half Century: A Jubilee Book (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887), by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Queen Victoria (London: Chatto and Windus, 1921), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Queen Victoria (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1921), by Lytton Strachey (Gutenberg text)
- Great Britain and Her Queen (second edition, 1897), by Anne E. Keeling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- To London for the Jubilee (Toronto: G. Morang, 1897), by Kit Coleman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Kings and Queens I Have Known (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1904), by Elena Văcărescu
More items available under broader and related terms at left.