William Ewart Gladstone

Standard Name: Gladstone, William Ewart

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Emily Lawless
Hurrish was EL 's most commercially successful work of fiction. Sichel noted that it made an instantaneous effect
Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
76
, July 1914, pp. 80-100.
85
on its appearance, and that this occurred during a time of general popular and political interest...
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, 1888.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Literary responses Emily Lawless
William Ewart Gladstone originally took With Essex in Ireland to be an authentic account. Edith Sichel suggests that it required Homeric naïveté and immense power of belief to take it for a contemporary document, but...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
The Morning Post gave the book a good review,
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
45
but the London Quarterly called this and EL 's next work dangerous or wicked in their sympathetic portrayal of atheism.
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, Oct. 2007, pp. 476-95.
477 and n1
In deploring...
Literary responses Constance Naden
Despite some good reviews, CN 's two volumes of poems had made comparatively little impact until Gladstone drew new attention to them in the Speaker while writing on current poetry.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, 1976.
163
Gladstone was generally laudatory: The strength of...
Literary responses Edna Lyall
EL reported that Unionists in Tipperary were angered by the sympathetic portrayal of characters whom they regarded as seditious or traitorous,
Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
14
, No. 3, Oct. 2007, pp. 476-95.
479
but the prime minister, Gladstone , congratulated her on the singular courage she...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Rigby
The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.
Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray, 1880.
vi
This presumably refers to...
Material Conditions of Writing A. S. Byatt
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...
Occupation Marie Corelli
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...
politics Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB 's existing involvement in Irish politics became stronger and more focussed in 1880, a year of steeply increased emigration from Ireland. She was a supporter of Parnell , with an interest in Nationalist politics...
politics May Laffan
ML had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their...
politics Emily Shirreff
Founded in February 1875 by Beata Doreck (who died in 1875 shortly after assuming the presidency of the new organization), Maria Grey , and ES , the Froebel Society promoted the kindergarten system advocated by...
politics F. Mabel Robinson
FMR became deeply interested in political debates and struggles around the issue of home rule for Ireland, and went so far as to carry secret messages back and forth between England and Ireland. This...
politics Henrietta Müller
Having become a householder (at 58 Cadogan Place in south-west London) for the first time the year before,
Pall Mall Gazette. J. K. Sharpe, 1-57.
5932 (11 March 1884): 2
Müller refused to pay when she received her initial rates bill...

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