The first edition sold twenty thousand copies, which was a great success. Publication Įxtracts of her journals were published during her lifetime such as Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands which was published in 1868. She also wrote many letters, and, with the journals, it is estimated that she wrote over two thousand words a day - about sixty million words during her lifetime. She continued writing until just ten days before her death, 69 years later, filling 122 volumes. She was instructed in this by her governess, Lehzen, and her mother inspected the journals each day until she became Queen. Victoria started a daily journal in 1832, when she was just thirteen years old, and her first words were, "This book, Mamma gave me, that I might write the journal of my journey to Wales in it." The keeping of such journals was common at that time. The collection is stored in the Royal Archives and, in 2012, was put online in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries. Extracts were published during her life and sold well. Queen Victoria maintained diaries and journals throughout her life, filling 122 volumes which were expurgated after her death by her daughter Princess Beatrice.
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