William Ewart Gladstone

GF 's mother, Lady Granville , is said to have regretted that Ellen Middleton was quite so mournful. But contemporary reviewers were generally positive, and the novel proved popular. William Ewart Gladstone , reviewing it...

When they met in May 1865, she was almost eighteen and he thirty-two. He served as Postmaster-General in Gladstone 's government of 1880.

Cross , concerned to protect and dignify her, chose the more sententious passages and excluded the spontaneous, trivial, and humorous remarks from her personal writings, and presented an icon of Victorian moral earnestness; many...

Rebecca was DDM 's best known work, earning her massive profits, and it has become one of the most widely read novels of all time.The Times Literary Supplement reviewer wrote: In its kind...

BMC was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household...

From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books...

Among women writers, in addition to Dorothy Wordsworth , Joanna Baillie , and Maria Jane Jewsbury , SC also knew Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Anna Jameson , Elizabeth Rigby , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Harriet Martineau

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...

She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone , and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book...

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...

Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and his wife in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury

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...

One Thing Needful is remarkable for its portrayal of a wheelchair-bound man as heroic: he is the only person able to rescue a child from a burning building, because of the exceptional strength of his...

MB 's rendering contributed to making the journal a sensation in England, and a major influence on a generation and more of English journal writers, including Katherine Mansfield . It is, indirectly, the inspiration for...

This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown .MB presented a copy to William Gladstone , with whom she maintained a correspondence.