Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder, 1913.
328-9
William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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 | 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 | 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, . 22 |
| 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 | George Eliot | Cross
, concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks Eliot, George. “Preface”. The George Eliot Letters, edited by Gordon S. Haight, Yale University Press, 1954, p. 1: ix - lxxvii. xiv |
| 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 | Annie S. Swan | Aldersyde was well reviewed. ASS
sent a copy to Gladstone
(she says he was then engaged in an election campaign for his parliamentary seat of Midlothian, though the dates do not seem to fit)... |
| Literary responses | Louisa Catherine Shore | Elegies was praised by Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, and William Gladstone
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Shore, Arabella. First and Last Poems. Grant Richards, 1900. v |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 1888. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 412 |
| 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 |
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.
McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.
120-1
1 February 1886: William Gladstone (Liberal) formed the UK...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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.
36
, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8. 27
30 April 1892: The House of Commons debated a women's suffrage...
National or international item
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,...
National or international item
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.
491
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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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