William Ewart Gladstone

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 ....

Compared with its predecessor, said Johns , this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. It opens on a female observer of empire, the witty and accomplishedEmily Eden

Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge (brought by Joseph Cottle the Bristol bookseller),Algernon Knox (a precursor of late Victorian High Churchmanship), Anna Letitia Barbauld , Elizabeth Fry , and a goodly...

Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone , The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. As a portrait of a captain of industry it...

It was granted by William Gladstone at the instigation of Mary and William Howitt .

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

The book includes frequent letters to and from Marsh's sisters as well as her close friend Caroline Maitland . She also kept a regular correspondence with Florence Nightingale , Hedley Vicars , the Archbishop of Canterbury

Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM again became involved politically when the House of Commons was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8...

In early 1881 JWM published two articles in the Newcastle Chronicle. The first, Sicily and Ireland, appeared anonymously on 25 January. The second, A Mazzinian View of Mr. Gladstone, appeared on 16 February.

Little is known about EL 's life before she met her famous husband. Her immediate family...

The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport...

Alfred Lyttelton delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June...

EL provides lucid accounts of her husband's early life; his political break with his uncle, Prime Minister William Gladstone , over the issue of Irish Home Rule; their visit to South Africa immediately following the...

EL moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson . Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...

The Morning Post gave the book a good review, but the London Quarterly called this and EL 's next work dangerous or wicked in their sympathetic portrayal of atheism.In deploring...