William Ewart Gladstone

Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
politics May Laffan
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...
Friends, Associates Emily Lawless
EL first met William Ewart Gladstone at a hotel in Cannes, where they had a rich two-hour conversation about Irish politics and her recent book With Essex in Ireland.
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, pp. 80-100.
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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
on its appearance, and that this occurred during a time of general popular and political interest...
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...
Friends, Associates Mary Linskill
On this same holiday, passing through London, ML was invited to dinner by Gladstone , who was an admirer of her work.
Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son.
40
Residence Edna Lyall
EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
53
with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
The Morning Post gave the book a good review,
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
45
but the London Quarterly called this and EL 's next work dangerous or wicked in their sympathetic portrayal of atheism.
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, pp. 476-95.
477 and n1
In deploring...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
EL reported that Unionists in Tipperary were angered by the sympathetic portrayal of characters whom they regarded as seditious or traitorous,
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, pp. 476-95.
479
but the prime minister, Gladstone , congratulated her on the singular courage she...
Cultural formation Edith Lyttelton
Little is known about EL 's life before she met her famous husband.
An unpublished memoir held by the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College , Cambridge, may provide more information.
Her immediate family...
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Lyttelton
The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport...
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Lyttelton
Alfred Lyttelton delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edith Lyttelton
EL provides lucid accounts of her husband's early life; his political break with his uncle, Prime Minister William Gladstone , over the issue of Irish Home Rule; their visit to South Africa immediately following the...
Publishing Jessie White Mario
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.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press.
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Textual Production Catherine Marsh
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

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