William Ewart Gladstone

Elegies was praised by Robert Browning , George Meredith , and William Gladstone .

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...

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...

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...

Hurrish was EL 's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect on its appearance, and that this occurred during a time of general popular and political interest...

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.

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...

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.

She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone , and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book...

From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...

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...

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...

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...

ML had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their...

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...