William Ewart Gladstone

EL reported that Unionists in Tipperary were angered by the sympathetic portrayal of characters whom they regarded as seditious or traitorous, but the prime minister, Gladstone , congratulated her on the singular courage she...

On this same holiday, passing through London, ML was invited to dinner by Gladstone , who was an admirer of her work.

EL first met William Ewart Gladstone at a hotel in Cannes, where they had a rich two-hour conversation about Irish politics and her recent book With Essex in Ireland.

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...

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...

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...

FAK reported this little book as very well received—among anti-suffragists, naturally. She said she had many letters of appreciation. Gladstone , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to ask for more. He passed...

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...

From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers . Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she...

MCH published two letters on the Contagious Diseases Acts and related issues, addressing one to Queen Victoria and one to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone .

Her time in Connaught was, by her account, one of great personal danger to herself and other English inhabitants, and increasingly so in the 1860s as the Fenian movement gained ground and Gladstone 's Irish...

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...

In the pamphlet Gladstone 's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this...

The title-page quotes from the book of Daniel about Daniel (a prophet much beloved by seventeenth-century women prophets) having visions of his head. Many of the poems are patriotic or religious, not infrequently both, though...

Of GF 's three brothers,:Granville George , who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's Foreign Secretary; William died young following an accident; and Freddy , who also became a politician, edited...