William Ewart Gladstone

Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart

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Textual Features Josephine Butler
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...
Textual Features Lucy Knox
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...
Textual Features Eliza Meteyard
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.
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press.
As a portrait of a captain of industry it...
Textual Production Annie Besant
She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme.
Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
15
, No. 3, pp. 390-11.
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She entered further into political debate in the autumn of...
Textual Production Isabella Bird
After IB 's return from her travels in Persia and Tibet, Prime Minister William Gladstone , other British MPs, and professional organisations all requested her audience and invited her to speak about her experiences.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications.
179
Textual Production Florence Nightingale
In April 1862 FN had also engaged in correspondence with the War Office and with Gladstone to express her disapproval of any attempts to regulate prostitution. Earlier, in 1860, while a government commission pondered providing...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown .
Brown had also produced two illustrations for MB 's fairy tale Blue Ogven.
Ford, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work. Longmans, Green.
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MB presented a copy to William Gladstone , with whom she maintained a correspondence.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
37, 36
Textual Production Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB wrote the first of four sonnets, not published till after her death, on the statesman William Ewart Gladstone : her changing view of Gladstone in these poems follows the vicissitudes of his policy on...
Textual Production Mary Catherine Hume
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 .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 104
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
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
Textual Production Catherine Marsh
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...
Textual Production Harriet Martineau
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Henrietta Müller
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 ....
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hélène Gingold
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Queen Victoria
This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events...

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