William Ewart Gladstone

LMA was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau , who taught science to her and her...

Her closest friend at Oxford was Mary Talbot , niece of William Gladstone . Other friends included Edith Langridge and Janet Hogarth , sister of archaeologist David Hogarth .

She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. She entered further into political debate in the autumn of...

MBE was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone for help out of the Civil List .

MFB used her growing influence and reputation as a journalist to secure means for a research expedition to India, the first of several major professional travels. She thanked the Prime Minister, Gladstone , for...

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...

After IB 's return from her travels in Persia and Tibet, Prime Minister William Gladstone , other British MPs, and professional organisations all requested her audience and invited her to speak about her experiences.

MB 's rendering contributed to making the journal a sensation in England, and a major influence on a generation and more of English journal writers, including Katherine Mansfield . It is, indirectly, the inspiration for...

This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown .MB presented a copy to William Gladstone , with whom she maintained a correspondence.

One Thing Needful is remarkable for its portrayal of a wheelchair-bound man as heroic: he is the only person able to rescue a child from a burning building, because of the exceptional strength of his...

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...

Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and his wife in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury

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...

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...

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...