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William Gladstone

 

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Margaret Oliphant : Makers of Venice

'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages saying, first, that he was not going to Venice, as had been reported; and next, that he must contradict himself, and say that he had been in Venice, the book having quite given him that feeling; after which he enters into a question of Venetian political history about Bajamonte, whose very name, I should think, was unknown to most readers, but with whom this amazing old man seems intimately acquainted.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Margaret Oliphant : Jerusalem: Its History and Hope

I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion of those evidences of the sacred volume which are so much higher than the "higher criticism", and which have a range of flight beyond its reach.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book, Unknown

  

William Watson : Poems

On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining for him a Civil List pension, not the laureateship.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

various  : A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent

'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in the 'Handbook' in compliance with the invitation there given, for it is a sort of public duty to assist in rendering so useful and creditable a work as free as possible from even the slightest errors.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Julia Kavanagh : Natalie

'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her father, lately ejected from the premiership, to read it too.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Mary Elizabeth Braddon : unknown

"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Hall Caine : The Scapegoat

' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Marie Corelli : A Romance of Two Worlds

"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Marie Corelli : Ardath

"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he returned to it after two months, he was doing no more than skimming it."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Thomas Hardy : 

' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christian framework would lose its ethical bearings.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Unknown

  

Emile Zola : 

' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christian framework would lose its ethical bearings.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Mrs Humphry Ward : The History of David Grieve

' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

 : Latin texts

' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

 : Italian texts

' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Mary Augusta Ward : Robert Elsmere

'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he wrote to his daughter in March, "are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with "Robert Elsmere". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book". And to Lord Acton he wrote: "It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Thucydides : 

'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous conclusions to which it pointed. "Mamma and I", he wrote to his daughter in March, "are each of us still separately engaged in a death grapple with "Robert Elsmere". I complained of some of the novels you gave me to read as too stiff, but they are nothing to this. It is wholly out of the common order. At present I regard with doubt and dread the idea of doing anything on it, but cannot yet be sure whether your observations will be verified or not. In any case it is a tremendous book". And to Lord Acton he wrote: "It is not far from twice the length of an ordinary novel; and the labour and effort of reading it all, I should say, sixfold; while one could no more stop in it than in reading Thucydides".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Mark Pattison : Memoirs

'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman. He would much like to have seen more of the autobiography, but he understood that the personalities were too strong. I asked him if he had seen Pattison's last 'Confession of Faith', which Mrs Pattison decided not to print, in MS. He said no.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began).

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Gilbert Burnet : History of His Own Time

[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Samuel Knight : Life of Dr John Colet

[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece

'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece

'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece

Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Henry Fynes Clinton : Fasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece

Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Thomas William Lancaster : The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a

[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Thomas William Lancaster : The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a

[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Thomas William Lancaster : The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a

[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Baden Powell : The elements of curves: designed for the use of students of the

18,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Baden Powell : An elementary treatise on the geometry of curves and curved surfaces :

25 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Edward Burton : Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ

[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

  

Edward Burton : Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ

[...] Finished Burton [...]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone      Print: Book

 

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