Evidence: | Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]:
'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I read "Coningsby," and was told that one of the characters was meant to represent him. Disraeli never spoke to me upon the subject.
'I think the biography [of Disraeli] is a very blackguard publication, and written in a very blackguard style. I don't know who Mr. Vernon-Harcourt is, though I read last year a pamphlet written by him, attacking Lord Derby somewhat in a similar manner, but with more scanty materials.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849, 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1835 and 31 Dec 1854 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Lord Lyndhurst |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
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Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Benjamin Disraeli |
Title: | Coningsby |
Genre: | Fiction, Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 24621 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Louis J. Jennings | |
Title: | The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1884 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 307-308 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 (London, 1884), 3, p. 307-308, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24621, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Vernon-Harcourt widely supposed to be author of Disraeli biography; see note on p.308 in source. |
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