Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 15 September 2017
- 28 September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781316882580
- 9781107184800
- 9781316636145
- Dimensions:
- (247 x 174 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.73kg, 320 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (244 x 170 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.56kg, 323 Pages
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Book description
The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology, and aesthetic democracy.
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‘… Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon, explores the importance of the musico-literary intersections of the late nineteenth-century salon to Victorian liberalis … A key strength of Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon is the way in which it uniquely extends nineteenth-century scholarship by revealing new details and connections.’
Roger Hansford Source: Romance, Revolution and Reform
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