Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
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Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. |
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... |
Travel | Mary Frances Billington | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Henrietta Müller | The letter points out the flawed logic underpinning the Household Franchise Bill, which, though it intended to give unity and completeness to the household occupation franchise by granting the head of every household .... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria | This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'... |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, pp. 390-11. 400 |
Textual Production | Isabella Bird | 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. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications. 179 |
Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | 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... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown
. Brown had also produced two illustrations for MB
's fairy tale Blue Ogven. Ford, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work. Longmans, Green. 354 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 37, 36 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | 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... |
Timeline
18 August 1823: A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara,...
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18 August 1823
A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara, partly as a consequence of the hostility of local authorities to the activities which the Church Missionary Society
was undertaking among slaves.
9 August 1844: The Regulation of Railways Act (otherwise...
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9 August 1844
The Regulation of Railways Act (otherwise known as Gladstone
's Act) was passed.
1 May 1851: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry...
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1 May 1851
The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, the first world's fair, was opened by Queen Victoria
in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...
Building item
October 1852
Mrs Maria Hayden
brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.
April 1862: The Senate of the University of London voted...
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April 1862
The Senate of the University of London voted against allowing women into their medical degree programme.
3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...
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3 December 1868
Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone
, a Liberal
, formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli
.
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
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26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
1870: An Irish Land Act was passed; although it...
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1870
An Irish Land Act was passed; although it had little immediate material effect, the act undermined traditional conceptions of land ownership in Ireland.
February 1870: Gladstone agreed to appoint the famous Devonshire...
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February 1870
Gladstone
agreed to appoint the famous Devonshire Commission
in response to the British Association for the Advancement of Science
's campaign for formal enquiry into national provisions for scientific pursuits.
20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...
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20 February 1874
Conservative
leader Benjamin Disraeli
formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone
's Liberal
government.
April 1876: The British Women's Temperance Association...
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April 1876
The British Women's Temperance Association
was founded at the national convention of the British Independent Order of the Good Templars
in Newcastle.
23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...
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23 April 1880
LiberalWilliam Gladstone
formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative
disaster in the general election.
May 1881: A Lords' enquiry was called into allegations...
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May 1881
A Lords' enquiry was called into allegations of diplomatic complicity in the white slave trade of British women on the continent.
1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...
Building item
1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
March 1882: The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between...
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March 1882
The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between Irish Home Rulers, led by Charles Stewart Parnell
, and Gladstone
's government; the agreement extended rent protection to Irish leaseholders, while Parnell agreed to cooperate with the Liberal...
Texts
Gladstone, William Ewart. "Robert Elsmere" and the Battle of Belief. Peter Paul and Brother, 1888.