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Author: William Ewart Gladstone
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Published: 2002
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ISBN-13: 9781570853876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe InteLex Past Masters English Letters database The Diaries of William Gladstone contains the definitive Oxford University Press edition of these diaries, edited by M.R.D. Foot and H.C.G. Matthew, in 14 volumes.
Author: Maria Francesca Rossetti
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phyllis Weliver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107184800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.
Author: John Morley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 110802677X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1903, this authorised biography of the Liberal Prime Minister Gladstone provides valuable insights into Victorian political life.
Author: Richard Aldous
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780393065701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis brilliant account of the dramatic confrontation between the two "mighty opposites" of the Victorian age highlights political giants William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli.
Author: Roy Jenkins
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2002-11-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0812966414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback. William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer’s art.
Author: Anne Isba
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-08-24
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781852854713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Gladstone The Grand Old Man of 19th century politics was Prime Minister four times. Throughout his life, women, from Queen Victoria through to prostitutes, were of great importance to him. This book talks about Gladstone and shows that his most no
Author: Sarah Watling
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781784707170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*A NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR* *WINNER OF THE TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE* 'Interesting women have secrets. They also ought to have sisters.' From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out- surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined, and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in love with all four of them; D. H. Lawrence thought they were frankly 'wrong'; Virginia Woolf found them curiously difficult to read. In this intimate, sweeping biography, Sarah Watling brings the sisters in from the margins, tracing lives that span colonial Jamaica, the bucolic life of Victorian progressives, the frantic optimism of Edwardian Cambridge, the bleakness of two world wars, and a host of evolving philosophies for life over the course of the twentieth century. Noble Savages is a compelling portrait of sisterhood in all its complexities, which rediscovers the lives of four extraordinary women within the varied fortunes of the feminism of their times, while illuminating the battles and ethics of biography itself.
Author: Harold Macmillan
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780230768437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom August 1950 until 1966 Harold Macmillan kept one of the fullest and most entertaining political diaries of the twentieth century. This first volume starts in the last full year of the post war Labour government, follows his rise through the Churchill and Eden governments via a succession of high offices, and culminates with his becoming Prime Minister in 1957. He was an acute observer of events and people not just in his own country or party, but on the wider international and political scene. His Diary provides wry portraits of many of the leading political figures of the period and records his personal take on the great issues and events of the day. In the process Macmillan's wider activities and inner concerns are also revealed, casting light beyond the famously 'unflappable' exterior onto the character of one of the most enigmatic figures in modern British political history.
Author: Mary S. Watts
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848222014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Never previously published, due to the tiny, almost illegible handwriting, the diary volumes have now been painstakingly transcribed and edited by Desna Greenhow, who has extracted the most illuminating passages. Including detailed annotations, an introductory essay and short commentaries at the start of each year represented, this book chronicles life in the artistic, literary and political circles of the time, while also providing invaluable insights into Mary's own considerable achievements--most notably her management of the building and decorating of her unique Watts Cemetery Chapel."--Publisher's description.
