Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
| Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
| Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | In LondonKT
met the politician William Gladstone
(a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell
. |
| Friends, Associates | Queen Victoria | After Benjamin Disraeli
first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone
; Victoria found... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
| Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | FAK
reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone
, to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed... |
| Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | It was also published as a pamphlet. The Pall Mall Gazette congratulated MAW
on having been able to distract Gladstone from his preoccupation with Irish Home Rule. Peterson, William S. Victorian Heretic. Leicester University Press. 163 |
| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Hurrish was EL
's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol. 76 , pp. 80-100. 85 |
| Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent
, who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly... |
| Literary responses | B. M. Croker | BMC
was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household... |
| Literary responses | Louisa Catherine Shore | Elegies was praised by Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, and William Gladstone
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards. v |
| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | William Ewart Gladstone
originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel
suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but... |
| Literary responses | Annie S. Swan | Aldersyde was well reviewed. ASS
sent a copy to Gladstone
(she says he was then engaged in an election campaign for his parliamentary seat of Midlothian, though the dates do not seem to fit)... |
| Literary responses | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca was DDM
's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time. Kelly, Richard. Daphne du Maurier. Twayne. 66 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Cross
, concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
Timeline
1883: A French observer, Hector France, noted that...
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1883
A French observer, Hector France
, noted that condoms were packaged with colour pictures of Prime Minister Gladstone
and Queen Victoria
and sold in Petticoat Lane, London.
1 February 1886: William Gladstone (Liberal) formed the UK...
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1 February 1886
8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...
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8 June 1886
Gladstone
's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals
, and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives
.
30 April 1892: The House of Commons debated a women's suffrage...
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30 April 1892
The House of Commons debated a women's suffrage bill, introduced by Conservative member Sir Albert Rollit
, which would have allowed women with local government franchise to vote in parliamentary elections, but the bill failed...
15 August 1892: William Gladstone (Liberal), then eighty-two,...
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15 August 1892
William Gladstone
(Liberal
), then eighty-two, formed his fourth government.
5 March 1894: The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal) became Prime...
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5 March 1894
14 October 1902: St Deiniol's Library, situated near Hawarden...
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14 October 1902
St Deiniol's Library
, situated near Hawarden Castle under the Welsh mountains, founded by William Ewart Gladstone
to bring together readers who lacked books, was officially opened.
1905: The Times posthumously printed Benjamin Disraeli's...
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1905
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