Catherine Gladstone

Author : Janet Hilderley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781898595564

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Mrs Catherine Gladstone by Janet Hilderley Pdf

Catherine Glynne was born in 1812, in the same year as Charles Dickens. An earl's daughter she married the son of a self-made merchant, William Ewart Gladstone, who became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister on four occasions. While the Queen and the PM loathed each other, they both loved Catherine, Gladstone's wife. After a long and indecisive courtship, Gladstone said of his new wife that my Cathie forever twinkles. Society remarked that her beauty showed a profound intelligence. Catherine loved being in the main stream of action but disliked politicians, fashion and social niceties. Unusual for the time Gladstone was present at the birth of each of their eight children and Catherine insisted on feeding them herself. Mrs Gladstone's primary concern was support of the poor - in particular those suffering from cholera, near-starving mill girls and homeless orphans. She established the concept of free convalescent homes and her common-sense influenced the Poor Laws. To maintain her genius for charity she took every opportunity to approach Gladstone's friends for financial support for her good works. In return she found places for her husband's 'rescue' women - young girls forced into prostitution as a result of poverty. When her brother's ironworks failed Catherine and her family faced poverty. It was Gladstone's financial skills that saved the family from bankruptcy. Catherine died on 14th June, 1900. Pertinent to this biography is the letter the author wrote to the Church Times about the reasons behind the riots in London and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in August 2011. The letter header - "Mrs Gladstone! thou shouldst be living at this hour" - drew attention to a personality who in her time confronted severe social need through community action (the letter text is reproduced on the Press website).

Author : Mrs. Mary (Gladstone) Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B40302

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Catherine Gladstone by Mrs. Mary (Gladstone) Drew Pdf

Author : Mary Gladstone Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:12890518

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Catherine Gladstone by Mary Gladstone Drew Pdf

Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510020745403

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Catherine Gladstone. Life, Good Works, and Political Efforts by Edwin A. Pratt Pdf

Author : Mary Gladstone Drew
Publisher : London : Nisbet
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022702120

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Catherine Gladstone by Mary Gladstone Drew Pdf

Author : Phyllis Weliver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107184800

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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon by Phyllis Weliver Pdf

This volume reveals music's role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

Author : Seth Alexander Thevoz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786733726

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Club Government by Seth Alexander Thevoz Pdf

The book phenomenon of `Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St. James's district, has not been adequately historicized. Despite `Club Government' being referenced in most major political histories of the period, it is a topic which has never before enjoyed a full-length study. Making use of previously-sealed club archives, and adopting a broad range of analytical techniques, this work of political history, social history, sociology and quantitative approaches to history seeks to deepen our understanding of the distinctive and novel ways in which British political culture evolved in this period. The book concludes that historians have hugely underestimated the extent of club influence on `high politics' in Westminster, and though the reputation of clubs for intervening in elections was exaggerated, the culture and secrecy involved in gentleman's clubs had a huge impact on Britain and the British Empire.

Author : Michael Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134606382

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Gladstone by Michael Partridge Pdf

Gladstone is one of the most important political figures in modern British history. He held the office of Prime Minister four times during a turbulent and changing time in Britain's history. Michael Partridge provides a new survey of Gladstone's life and career, placing him firmly in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, and covering both his intriguing private life and his public career. Surveying a broad range of source material, Partridge begins by looking at Gladstone's early life, education and entry to Parliament, before looking at his marriage and service with Peel. He goes on to look in detail at Gladstone's terms as prime minister concluding with his fourth ministry, when Gladstone, by now in his eighties, returned to power. He tried and failed to resolve the problems of Ireland, which had become his great obsession, for the last time and eventually retired from politics in 1894 and died a few years later.

Author : H. C. G. Matthew
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191584275

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Gladstone 1809-1898 by H. C. G. Matthew Pdf

William Ewart Gladstone was both the most charismatic and the most extraordinary of Victorians. His huge public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times prime minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic. His private life was a most curious blend of happiness and temptation. His Christian faith held the extremes of his character in sufficient harmony to avoid disintegration and to produce one of the most powerful political personalities in British history. H. C. G. Matthew's writings on Gladstone are generally acknowledged to have transformed understanding of the `Grand Old Man' of British Politics, and indeed his whole age. Appearing first as Introductions to his definitive edition of The Gladstone Diaries, they have been revised and made available in this volume, collected together in paperback for the first time. Gladstone 1809-1874: 'It deserves to become a classic of the genre' Illustrated London News 'For any aficionado of the high politics - and low life - of the nineteenth century, this book is a must' Observer 'the most sensitive and informed insight to date' English Historical Review Gladstone 1875-1898 (winner of the Wolfson History Prize 1995): 'Rarely can a single scholar have re-mapped a whole historical territory so grandly as H. C. G. Matthew has done in the case of Gladstone in particular and of Victorian politics and culture in general' English Historical Review

Author : Roland Quinault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134766949

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William Gladstone by Roland Quinault Pdf

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was the outstanding statesman of the Victorian age. He was an MP for over sixty years, a long serving and exceptional Chancellor of the Exchequer and four times Prime Minister. As the leader of the Liberal party over three decades, he personified the values and policies of later Victorian Liberalism. Gladstone, however, was always more than just a politician. He was also a considerable scholar, a dedicated Churchman and had a range of interests and connections that made him, in many respects, the quintessential Victorian. Yet important aspects of Gladstone's life have received relatively little recent attention from historians. This study reappraises Gladstone by focusing on five themes: his reputation; his representation in visual and material culture; his personal life; his role as an official; and the ethical and political basis of his international policies. This collection of original, often multidisciplinary studies, provides new perspectives on Gladstone's public and private life. As such, it illustrates the many-sided nature of his career and the complexities of his personality.

Author : Richard Shannon
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807824860

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Gladstone: 1865-1898 by Richard Shannon Pdf

William Ewart Gladstone was perhaps the greatest colossus of the Victorian Age. Along with his formidable rival, Benjamin Disraeli, he dominated Britain's political scene from the moment of his appointment as chancellor of the exchequer in Aberdeen's famo

Author : Erich Eyck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351060851

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Gladstone by Erich Eyck Pdf

Originally published in 1966 and translated by Bernard Miall, Gladstone traces William Gladstone’s career from his election to Parliament in 1832, to his funeral in Westminster Abbey. The book portrays Gladstone as a firm adherent of Toryism and it describes his relations with Peel and Palmerston, as well as giving a well-founded account of his growing Liberalism and his rivalry with Disraeli. Eyck has written a generous and perceptive account of Gladstone’s life and career which since its first publication in 1938 has become generally recognized as a valuable contribution to the history of the nineteenth century.

Author : Mary Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:601393921

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Catherine Gladstone by Mary Drew Pdf

Author : Anne Isba
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : 0861932773

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Gladstone and Dante by Anne Isba Pdf

Close examination of William Gladstone's engagement with Dante, and its effect upon his political and personal life. From the point at which he first read the Commedia, at the age of twenty-four, William Gladstone was to consider Dante Alighieri one of the major influences in his life, on a par with Homer and St Augustine, and to identifyhimself strongly with the poet. Both were statesmen as well as scholars, for whom civic duty was more important than personal convenience. Both were serious theologians as well as simple spiritual pilgrims. Both idealised women. This book shows how Gladstone found in Dante an endorsement of his own beliefs as he negotiated a path through life. Isba traces the development of his enthusiasm against the background of a resurgent Italy in a new Europe, and in the context of the Victorian fashion for all things medieval. She also examines the parallels between the two men's attitudes to sex and religion in particular, and closes by analysing the quality of Gladstone's own writingon Dante (he was to become an internationally recognised Dante scholar) .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Arts
ISBN : UIUC:30112108240539

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Sketch by Anonim Pdf