The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3)
1809-1859
The first volume of John Morley's Life of William Ewart Gladstone, published in 1903, covers the years 1809 to 1859, from a Liverpool merchant's household through Eton and Oxford to the brink of Liberal leadership. Morley, a cabinet colleague, uses the Hawarden papers to trace Gladstone's early Toryism, his election for Newark in 1832, his first book on church and state, his service under Peel and the crisis of the Corn Laws, the Oxford Movement and his religious life, the Neapolitan prisons, the great budget of 1853 and the Crimean War. Queen Victoria asked that it not be written in the narrow way of party, and the three volumes long stood as the standard biography. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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