Mrs Catherine Gladstone

Author : Janet Hilderley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Mary Gladstone Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000002836171

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Catherine Gladstone by Mary Gladstone Drew Pdf

Author : Mary Gladstone Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Gladstone
ISBN : UOM:39015074813026

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Mrs. Gladstone by Mary Gladstone Drew Pdf

Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Georgina Battiscombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:$B751093

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Mrs. Gladstone by Georgina Battiscombe Pdf

Biography of the wife of Prime Minister William Gladstone, based on her unpublished letters and diaries. Re-creates the climate of Victorian family life.

Author : Georgina Battiscombe
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1020805498

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Mrs Gladstone by Georgina Battiscombe Pdf

Georgina Battiscombe's gripping biography of Catherine Gladstone, wife of the famous British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, offers a revealing look at one of the most fascinating women of Victorian England. With insights into the social and political world of the era, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Great Britain. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anne Isba
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1852854715

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Gladstone and Women by Anne Isba Pdf

William Gladstone The Grand Old Man of 19th century politics was Prime Minister four times. Throughout his life, women, from Queen Victoria through to prostitutes, were of great importance to him. This book talks about Gladstone and shows that his most no

Author : Penelope Gladstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Prime ministers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034373584

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Portrait of a Family by Penelope Gladstone Pdf

Author : Mary Gladstone Drew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002411293H

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Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew) by Mary Gladstone Drew Pdf

Author : Richard Deacon
Publisher : London : F. Muller
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Premiers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037980765

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The Private Life of Mr. Gladstone by Richard Deacon Pdf

"William Ewart Gladstone, FRS, FSS (29 December 1809? 19 May 1898), was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times (1868?1874, 1880?1885, February?July 1886 and 1892?1894), more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 when he resigned for the last time. He had also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times (1853?1855, 1859?1866, 1873?1874, and 1880?1882)."--Wikipedia.

Author : Roland Quinault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : 40,9 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 : Mary Gladstone Drew
Publisher : London : Nisbet
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022702120

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Catherine Gladstone by Mary Gladstone Drew Pdf

Author : H. C. G. Matthew
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : George Newnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015056049433

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The Strand Magazine by George Newnes Pdf