William Ewart Gladstone

Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart

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Friends, Associates Louisa May Alcott
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...
Friends, Associates Katharine Tynan
In LondonKT met the politician William Gladstone (a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell .
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913.
328-9
On another occasion, she attended a garden-party given by feminist novelist...
Friends, Associates Gertrude Bell
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 .
Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1996, .
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Friends, Associates Alfred Tennyson
A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald , Coventry Patmore , Edward Lear , William Ewart Gladstone
Friends, Associates Anna Swanwick
AS 's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson , Tennyson , Robert Browning (who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau (brother of...
Literary responses Mathilde Blind
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...
Literary responses Olive Schreiner
The book elicited strong reactions, most of them positive. It was highly praised by Philip Kent , who wrote a long article about it instead of his usual shorter reviews in Life, a weekly...
Literary responses Emily Lawless
Hurrish was EL 's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, July 1914, pp. 80-100.
85
on its appearance, and that this occurred during a time of general popular and political interest...
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, 1888.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Literary responses Emily Lawless
William Ewart Gladstone originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
The Morning Post gave the book a good review,
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
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but the London Quarterly called this and EL 's next work dangerous or wicked in their sympathetic portrayal of atheism.
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, Oct. 2007, pp. 476-95.
477 and n1
In deploring...
Literary responses Constance Naden
Despite some good reviews, CN 's two volumes of poems had made comparatively little impact until Gladstone drew new attention to them in the Speaker while writing on current poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, 1976.
163
Gladstone was generally laudatory: The strength of...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
EL reported that Unionists in Tipperary were angered by the sympathetic portrayal of characters whom they regarded as seditious or traitorous,
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, Oct. 2007, pp. 476-95.
479
but the prime minister, Gladstone , congratulated her on the singular courage she...
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...

Timeline

1883: A French observer, Hector France, noted that...

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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.
McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.
120-1

1 February 1886: William Gladstone (Liberal) formed the UK...

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1 February 1886

William Gladstone (Liberal ) formed the UK government for the third time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...

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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 .
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
424-5, 609
Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8.
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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,...

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15 August 1892

William Gladstone (Liberal ), then eighty-two, formed his fourth government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115

5 March 1894: The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal) became Prime...

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5 March 1894

The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal ) became Prime Minister after Gladstone 's resignation.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491

14 October 1902: St Deiniol's Library, situated near Hawarden...

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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.
St Deiniol’s Library. http://www.st-deiniols.org/.

1905: The Times posthumously printed Benjamin Disraeli's...

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1905

The Times posthumously printed Benjamin Disraeli 's last novel, which is now known as Falconet.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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