William Ewart Gladstone

Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart

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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...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
Former Prime-Minister and MP William Gladstone 's attack on MAW 's heterodoxy, 'Robert Elsmere' and the Battle of Belief, appeared in the Nineteenth Century.
Gladstone, William Ewart. "Robert Elsmere" and the Battle of Belief. Peter Paul and Brother.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
412
Publishing Mary Augusta Ward
MAW responded to Gladstone 's attack on Robert Elsmere with The New Reformation, also in the Nineteenth Century.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
412
politics Mary Augusta Ward
While the motivation for her trip was to obtain a loan from her relatives, the visit had long-term political consequences for MAW : first-hand experience of Irish political and social turmoil influenced her political views...
Reception Mary Augusta Ward
William S. Peterson has published a monograph study of Robert Elsmere's genesis and reception. It was unusual in provoking sustained rebuttals of its argument, and those not just from Gladstone but from critics and...
Literary responses Mary Augusta Ward
It was also published as a pamphlet. The Pall Mall Gazette congratulated MAW on having been able to distract Gladstone from his preoccupation with Irish Home Rule.
Peterson, William S. Victorian Heretic. Leicester University Press.
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Gladstone was generally laudatory: The strength of...
Publishing Anna Letitia Waring
At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Waring was widely read and used by congregations in both England and the...

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