Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Houlston and Stoneman.
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William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Hannah More | Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(brought by Joseph Cottle
the Bristol bookseller), |
| 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. 22 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Linskill | On this same holiday, passing through London, ML
was invited to dinner by Gladstone
, who was an admirer of her work. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son. 40 |
| 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 | Anna Swanwick | Her work was greeted with a chorus of praise from reviewers: the only quibble, from some, referred to her metrical choices. P. H. Wicksteed
in the Saturday Review suggested that AS
would advance the cause... |
| 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. 45 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, pp. 476-95. 477 and n1 |
| 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 | 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, pp. 476-95. 479 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | FAK
reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone
, to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed... |
| 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 | 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 , pp. 80-100. 85 |
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...
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1 February 1886
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
.
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.
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...
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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.
1905: The Times posthumously printed Benjamin Disraeli's...
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1905
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