Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press.
William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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. |
Textual Features | F. Mabel Robinson | The subtitle defines the period covered as from earliest times to the close of the year 1885. 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. |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Compared with its predecessor, said Johns
, this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 134 |
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 | 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 |
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. 400 |
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. 354 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | These pieces convey vividly personal memories of people, places, and events from her childhood, and the impact her famous writer father had on her early life. She writes: my memory is a sort of Witches'... |
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... |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.