Author: Mary Gladstone DrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gladstone
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Mrs. Gladstone
Author: Mary Gladstone DrewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gladstone
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Mrs. Gladstone
Author: Georgina BattiscombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Gladstone
Author: Peter John JaggerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852851736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this collection of essays by leading historians, published on the centenary of his death, the reader is invited to consider the extraordinary career of one of Britain's greatest statesmen. The book illuminates Gladstone's complex personality.
The Real Gladstone
Author: J. Ewing RitchiePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732676579
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Real Gladstone by J. Ewing Ritchie
Mrs Catherine Gladstone
Author: Janet HilderleyPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1898595569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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).
The Gladstone Diaries
Author: W. E. GladstonePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198213703
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Conversations with Mr. Gladstone
Author: George Jacob HolyoakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2170
Book Description
Victorian Girls
Author: Sheila FletcherPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"Meriel, Lucy, Lavinia and May, the daughters of George, fourth Lord Lyttelton, were the nieces of the Prime Minister William Gladstone. Their letters and diaries make it possible for us to know them in extraordinary detail: at home at Hagley Hall in Worcestershire and in fashionable London society; at country houses and on tours of the Continent; in the schoolroom and embarking on courtship and marriage; in happiness and in adversity. Despite having eight very successful brothers, the girls emerge in their own right as strong characters. Victorian Girls is a remarkable portrait of a family. It is impossible not to feel personally involved in their lives."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Hearings [and Reports] 83rd Congress, 2nd Session
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description