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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria | Although the letters in this book are primarily concerned with personal and family issues, they also offer insights regarding QV
's opinions about various domestic and international affairs, including her disapproval of Gladstone
's victory... |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | It was also published as a pamphlet. The Pall Mall Gazette congratulated MAW
on having been able to distract Gladstone from his preoccupation with Irish Home Rule. Peterson, William S. Victorian Heretic. Leicester University Press. 163 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Former Prime-Minister and MP William Gladstone
's attack on MAW
's heterodoxy, 'Robert Elsmere' and the Battle of Belief, appeared in the Nineteenth Century. Gladstone, William Ewart. "Robert Elsmere" and the Battle of Belief. Peter Paul and Brother. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 412 |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
responded to Gladstone
's attack on Robert Elsmere with The New Reformation, also in the Nineteenth Century. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 412 |
Publishing | Anna Letitia Waring | At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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