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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hilderley, Janet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Alpha Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.