William Ewart Gladstone

Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone , The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. As a portrait of a captain of industry it...

The subtitle defines the period covered as from earliest times to the close of the year 1885. That is, the book takes in the rejection in April 1885 of Joseph Chamberlain 's moderate plan for...

Compared with its predecessor, said Johns , this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. It opens on a female observer of empire, the witty and accomplishedEmily Eden

The book includes frequent letters to and from Marsh's sisters as well as her close friend Caroline Maitland . She also kept a regular correspondence with Florence Nightingale , Hedley Vicars , the Archbishop of Canterbury

Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM again became involved politically when the House of Commons was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8...

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. She entered further into political debate in the autumn of...

After IB 's return from her travels in Persia and Tibet, Prime Minister William Gladstone , other British MPs, and professional organisations all requested her audience and invited her to speak about her experiences.

In April 1862 FN had also engaged in correspondence with the War Office and with Gladstone to express her disapproval of any attempts to regulate prostitution. Earlier, in 1860, while a government commission pondered providing...

This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown .MB presented a copy to William Gladstone , with whom she maintained a correspondence.

CGOB wrote the first of four sonnets, not published till after her death, on the statesman William Ewart Gladstone : her changing view of Gladstone in these poems follows the vicissitudes of his policy on...

MCH published two letters on the Contagious Diseases Acts and related issues, addressing one to Queen Victoria and one to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone .

These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'...

The letter points out the flawed logic underpinning the Household Franchise Bill, which, though it intended to give unity and completeness to the household occupation franchise by granting the head of every household ....

The title-page quotes from the book of Daniel about Daniel (a prophet much beloved by seventeenth-century women prophets) having visions of his head. Many of the poems are patriotic or religious, not infrequently both, though...