William Ewart Gladstone

MFB sent William Ewart Gladstone a copy to thank him for his help in facilitating her expedition. Editions of Woman in India appeared at Delhi in 1973 and 1987. The original text includes an introduction...

By 1877, AB 's writing also appeared in major periodicals including Fraser's Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Contemporary Review. In the latter, she published her diary from an 1885 voyage to Norway...

MAW responded to Gladstone 's attack on Robert Elsmere with The New Reformation, also in the Nineteenth Century.

In early 1881 JWM published two articles in the Newcastle Chronicle. The first, Sicily and Ireland, appeared anonymously on 25 January. The second, A Mazzinian View of Mr. Gladstone, appeared on 16 February.

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...

ML had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their...

Founded in February 1875 by Beata Doreck (who died in 1875 shortly after assuming the presidency of the new organization), Maria Grey , and ES , the Froebel Society promoted the kindergarten system advocated by...

Having become a householder (at 58 Cadogan Place in south-west London) for the first time the year before, Müller refused to pay when she received her initial rates bill...

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...

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...

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...