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4 letters from Benjamin Disraeli to the 1st Earl of Wharncliffe
Author: Benjamin Disraeli21 Letters from Benjamin Disraeli to the Earl and Countess of Rosslyn
Author: Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Letters
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442639504
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 739
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The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure. This volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable light on the remaining documents in the volume. The correspondence also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the Rhine in 1824, his adventurous trip to Spain, Greece, the Near East and Egypt in 1830, his tense negotiations with publishers and his campaign to shine as a member of aristocratic society and win political patronage. The letters demonstrate the fine eye for detail and the capacity for self-dramatization and literary conceits which mark his novels. With their annotations they also provide a remarkably detailed account of life in the upper reaches of English society as viewed from below, and of Disraeli's ambitions to enter that life.
4 Letters from Benjamin Disraeli to Lord Gordon
Author: Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin Disraeli Letters
Author: Michel PharandPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442648597
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
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In February 1868 Benjamin Disraeli became the fortieth prime minister of Great Britain. The tenth volume of theBenjamin Disraeli Letters series is devoted exclusively to Disraeli's copious correspondence during that momentous year. The volume contains 648 of Disraeli's letters, 510 of them never before published and all copiously annotated often with the other side of the correspondence included. This volume constitutes a unique record of Disraeli's rise to power and of the inner workings of the Victorian political scene, all of it recorded in intimate detail. A vast project which theTimes Literary Supplement has called a monument to scholarship, the Benjamin Disraeli Letters volumes are an essential resource for the study of nineteenth-century politics, history, literature, and the arts.
Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087287
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli's charm and wit. With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.
Letter from Benjamin Disraeli to the 1st Duke of Wellington
Author: Benjamin Disraeli5 Letters from Benjamin Disraeli, 4 to Thomus Loftus and 1 to the Duke of Wellington
Author: Benjamin Disraeli6 Letters from Benjamin Disraeli to 3rd Earl Grey
Author: Benjamin DisraeliThe Letters of Runnymede
Author: Benjamin DisraeliPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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