William Ewart Gladstone

In the pamphlet Gladstone 's phantom returns from the dead to witness the ruinous consequences of Home Rule, for which he had fought. AG later moved toward an acceptance of Home Rule, but at this...

Little is known about EL 's life before she met her famous husband. Her immediate family...

From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers . Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she...

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

The mother of Alfred Lyttelton (youngest of twelve children of the fourth Baron Lyttelton) had died six months after he was born. He was a successful lawyer and became a top athlete in English sport...

Alfred Lyttelton delayed entering politics until his uncle the Prime Minister William Gladstone resigned, because he could not agree with him on the subject of Irish Home Rule. Before the general election of 25 June...

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.

Of GF 's three brothers,:Granville George , who inherited the title, was a politician who became Gladstone's Foreign Secretary; William died young following an accident; and Freddy , who also became a politician, edited...

Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge (brought by Joseph Cottle the Bristol bookseller),Algernon Knox (a precursor of late Victorian High Churchmanship), Anna Letitia Barbauld , Elizabeth Fry , and a goodly...

On this same holiday, passing through London, ML was invited to dinner by Gladstone , who was an admirer of her work.

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

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , attended Gladstone 's party for the Italian patriot Garibaldi , who was visiting England.

After Benjamin Disraeli first became Prime Minister, somewhat briefly, on 27 April 1866, Victoria encountered a type of politician which was new to her. Prince Albert had distrusted Disraeli and favoured Gladstone ; Victoria found...

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

LMA was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett , Ralph Waldo Emerson , who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau , who taught science to her and her...