William Ewart Gladstone

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 .

Using St Catherine as an example, JB sets out to illustrate the degree to which the efforts and endeavours of a single person can have significant impact on the society in which they live. After...

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

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

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 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...

William S. Peterson has published a monograph study of Robert Elsmere's genesis and reception. It was unusual in provoking sustained rebuttals of its argument, and those not just from Gladstone but from critics and...

FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...

It was granted by William Gladstone at the instigation of Mary and William Howitt .

After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH invited by Gladstone to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry purchased the acting rights to the...

At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911. Waring was widely read and used by congregations in both England and the...