Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
William Ewart Gladstone
Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria | Although the letters in this book are primarily concerned with personal and family issues, they also offer insights regarding QV
's opinions about various domestic and international affairs, including her disapproval of Gladstone
's victory... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edith Lyttelton | EL
provides lucid accounts of her husband's early life; his political break with his uncle, Prime Minister William Gladstone
, over the issue of Irish Home Rule; their visit to South Africa immediately following the... |
| 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'... |
| Travel | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
used her growing influence and reputation as a journalist to secure means for a research expedition to India, the first of several major professional travels. She thanked the Prime Minister, Gladstone
, for... |
| Violence | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. |
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