Mrs. Catherine Gladstone : "a woman not quite of her time" /
"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 love...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. :
Alpha Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A meeting, a marriage and rising power to 1840
- Death of a daughter, ladies of the night and financial disaster 1840s
- Journey to Naples, king of an island and 1850s
- Good-bye to a sister
- Upsetting Miss Nightingale and fighting Victorian poverty for poor suffering humanity
- A loving wife, a widowed queen and preparing for power 1860s
- Enter Disraeli, departing brothers and 1870s
- A great political campaign
- A time of change, the great courtesans and murder 1880s
- Death of a soldier, Ireland, a Jubilee 1886- and Mrs. Gladstone enters politics 1892
- Winds of change and departure 1892-1896
- Good-bye Catherine 1897-1900.