William Ewart Gladstone

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...

At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911. Waring was widely read and used by congregations in both England and the...

MFB sent William Ewart Gladstone a copy to thank him for his help in facilitating her expedition. Editions of Woman in India appeared at Delhi in 1973 and 1987. The original text includes an introduction...

By 1877, AB 's writing also appeared in major periodicals including Fraser's Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Contemporary Review. In the latter, she published her diary from an 1885 voyage to Norway...

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.

MAW responded to Gladstone 's attack on Robert Elsmere with The New Reformation, also in the Nineteenth Century.

William S. Peterson has published a monograph study of Robert Elsmere's genesis and reception. It was unusual in provoking sustained rebuttals of its argument, and those not just from Gladstone but from critics and...

FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...

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

After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH invited by Gladstone to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry purchased the acting rights to 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...

Using St Catherine as an example, JB sets out to illustrate the degree to which the efforts and endeavours of a single person can have significant impact on the society in which they live. After...

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...