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William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth
, Joanna Baillie
, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
, SC
also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Anna Jameson
, Elizabeth Rigby
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Harriet Martineau |
| Occupation | Marie Corelli | 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... |
| 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 | 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. |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone
's government of 1880. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under Henry Fawcett |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Fullerton | Of GF
's three brothers,:Granville George
, who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's
Foreign Secretary; William
died young following an accident; and Freddy
, who also became a politician, edited... |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | GF
's mother, Lady Granville
, is said to have regretted that Ellen Middleton was quite so mournful. But contemporary reviewers were generally positive, and the novel proved popular. William Ewart Gladstone
, reviewing it... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hélène Gingold | The title-page quotes from the book of Daniel about Daniel (a prophet much beloved by seventeenth-century women prophets) having visions of his head. Many of the poems are patriotic or religious, not infrequently both, though... |
| Characters | Augusta Gregory | In the pamphlet Gladstone
's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG
later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this... |
| Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | 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... |
| Violence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Her time in Connaught was, by her account, one of great personal danger to herself and other English inhabitants, and increasingly so in the 1860s as the Fenian
movement gained ground and Gladstone
's Irish... |
| Textual Production | Mary Catherine Hume | 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
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 104 |
| Education | Harriet Hamilton King | From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she... |
| Textual Features | Lucy Knox | 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... |
Timeline
1883: A French observer, Hector France, noted that...
Building item
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...
National or international item
1 February 1886
8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...
National or international item
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,...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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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