Gladstone Diaries: Volume 14: Index - With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence

Zusatztext a monumental achievement! for which congratulations are in order to the editorial body led by Lord Blake and to the staff of the Clarendon Press as well as to Professor Matthew's devoted assiduity ... There are many felicities and excellences in Professor Matthew's reading of Gladstone ... what remains truly invaluable in the diaries are the very occasional flashes of illumination in which Gladstone reveals the deepest inwardness of himself. Zusammenfassung The index to the thirteen text volumes of The Gladstone Diaries 1825-1896 has three parts.First `Dramatis Personae', a list of the 20,500 people mentioned by Gladstone in his diaries.Secondly `Gladstone's Lifetime Reading', a bibliography of the 20,000 books, pamphlets, and articles, whose reading he records in his diaries, with the dates when he read them. This is a bibliography of remarkable cultural interest. It is probably the most ambitious attempt by a public figure to note his or her reading and it is certainly unique as a printed record of the lifetime's reading of am eminent Briton.Thirdly, a `Subject Index' which is the reader's most direct way into the extraordinary range of subjects covered in the thirteen text volumes. It is effectively an index to most of British public life from 1830 until 1896. About two hundred of the people who figure most prominently in the diaries are included in the Subject Index (in addition to the `Dramatis Personae') with detailed analytic entries. It also includes a bibliography of Gladstone's own writings as he recorded them in his diaries.This is a culmination of H. C. G. Matthew's acclaimed edition of Gladstone's diaries, correspondence, and other papers. It is an invaluable reference tool and an essential key to a magisterial work of scholarship.

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• Authors: W. E. Gladstone, W.e. Gladstone, GLADSTONE W E
• Assisted by: H. C. G. Matthew (Editor), Matthew H. C. G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780198204657
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820465-7
• No. of pages: 882
• Series: Gladstone Diaries; The Gladstone Diaries
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Autobiography: historical, political & military, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Human rights, civil rights