Only 18 when she became Queen of Britain, Victoria gave her name to an age and an empire. In this collection, learn who she was and what happened to people and countries during her lengthy reign.
One theory suggests that Sir William Gull, Queen Victoria's physician, is Jack the Ripper.
From the age of 5 to 15, Beatrix spends summers in Scotland where she falls in love with nature.
Potter spends summers in the Lake District and uses its surroundings in The Talk of Peter Rabbit.
One theory, about the Whitechapel-area muders, suggests that Prince Albert Victor is Jack the Ripper.
Mary Kelly supposedly tries to blackmail the royal family with her information about Prince Eddy's illegitimate child.
After Ebenezer Scrooge takes a trip with the Three Spirits, he decides to make changes in his life. He determines not to end-up like his partner, Jac...
Marley promises that Scrooge Three Spirits will visit his old partner. The first Spirit - the Ghost of Christmas Past - is his first visitor.
As he journeys with the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come," Scrooge sees the body of a man who dies alone, unwanted and unloved. He begins to worry: I...
Beatrix writes twenty-three little books for children, which remain popular today.
The Mahdi and his soldiers, known as dervishes, kill Egyptians who refuse to adopt his version of Islam; slave trade resumes and alcohol is forbidden.
Beatrix has a Belgian buck rabbit, Peter Piper, upon which she bases the fictional Peter Rabbit.
Annie Chapman and Elisabeth Stride are the Ripper's next victims.
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