William Ewart Gladstone

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...

Elegies was praised by Robert Browning , George Meredith , and William Gladstone .

Hurrish was EL 's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect on its appearance, and that this occurred during a time of general popular and political interest...

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)...

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.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

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...

Cross , concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks from her personal writings, and presented an icon of Victorian moral earnestness; many...

The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.

She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone , and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book...

From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...

She was a Liberal (who canvassed for the Gladstone supporter George Granville Leveson-Gower when he stood—unsuccessfully—for East Marylebone in 1889), a supporter of Irish Home Rule, a member of the Somerville Club for women, and...

CN 's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in...

CGOB 's existing involvement in Irish politics became stronger and more focussed in 1880, a year of steeply increased emigration from Ireland. She was a supporter of Parnell , with an interest in Nationalist politics...

While the motivation for her trip was to obtain a loan from her relatives, the visit had long-term political consequences for MAW : first-hand experience of Irish political and social turmoil influenced her political views...

FMR became deeply interested in political debates and struggles around the issue of home rule for Ireland, and went so far as to carry secret messages back and forth between England and Ireland. This...