William Ewart Gladstone

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...