William Ewart Gladstone

Founded in February 1875 by Beata Doreck (who died in 1875 shortly after assuming the presidency of the new organization), Maria Grey , and ES , the Froebel Society promoted the kindergarten system advocated by...

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...

FMR became deeply interested in political debates and struggles around the issue of home rule for Ireland, and went so far as to carry secret messages back and forth between England and Ireland. This...

The subtitle defines the period covered as from earliest times to the close of the year 1885. That is, the book takes in the rejection in April 1885 of Joseph Chamberlain 's moderate plan for...

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'...

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , attended Gladstone 's party for the Italian patriot Garibaldi , who was visiting England.

The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

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...

CGOB 's existing involvement in Irish politics became stronger and more focussed in 1880, a year of steeply increased emigration from Ireland. She was a supporter of Parnell , with an interest in Nationalist politics...

CN 's public humiliation at the hands of George Norton drove her to campaign against current divorce laws and property laws concerning women. Although not associated with feminist organisations pursuing the cause, she was in...

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...

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.

She was a Liberal (who canvassed for the Gladstone supporter George Granville Leveson-Gower when he stood—unsuccessfully—for East Marylebone in 1889), a supporter of Irish Home Rule, a member of the Somerville Club for women, and...

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 ....