Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli?s charm and wit.With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.

Prime ministers --- Disraeli, Benjamin, --- Beaconsfield, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Against a European background of the 1848 revolutions and Louis Napoleon's 1851 coup, the 602 letters of this volume cover Disraeli's accession to the leadership of his party in the House of Commons and his first attempts to move the party beyond reactionary protectionism and ultra-Protestantism. In this period, Disraeli works hard at all aspects of his new role, finding 'good men' to bring into the party, patching rifts within it, and establishing a new platform on which to maintain the system of landed aristocracy in the age of free trade. When the chance to form a government comes, however, his party is unsuccessful.The turmoil in the world at large is matched by that in Disraeli's own affairs. Foremost are the deaths of his father, a central figure in his intellectual development, and of Lord George Bentinck, the anchor of his financial and political strategies. Once again, his creditors threaten to drive him from public life, and come alarmingly close to success on at least one occasion. In addition, his marriage goes through a major crisis, as Mary Anne Disraeli's jealousy over his frequent correspondence with Lady Londonderry and his regular visits to her precipitates an actual separation and period of estrangement. His major correspondent and confidante continues to be his sister Sarah, but there are also a surprising number of letters (many of them previously unpublished) to major figures such as Metternich and Derby. The volume ends with the exchanges between Disraeli and other political leaders on the verge of a second chance at government, which in 1852 will bring a brief taste of power at last.

Prime ministers --- Disraeli, Benjamin, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Beaconsfield,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure. This volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable light on the remaining documents in the volume. The correspondence also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the Rhine in 1824, his adventurous trip to Spain, Greece, the Near East and Egypt in 1830, his tense negotiations with publishers and his campaign to shine as a member of aristocratic society and win political patronage. The letters demonstrate the fine eye for detail and the capacity for self-dramatization and literary conceits which mark his novels. With their annotations they also provide a remarkably detailed account of life in the upper reaches of English society as viewed from below, and of Disraeli's ambitions to enter that life.

Prime ministers --- Disraeli, Benjamin, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Beaconsfield,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book tells the story of an early nineteenth-century London newspaper, the Representative, more important for the people who took part in its inception than for its journalistic merits. The gallery of characters who appear in the narrative includes prominent figures of the age, literary as well as political, such as Sir Walter Scott and his son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart; Foreign Secretary George Canning; and certainly publisher John Murray II. The pivotal figure is, however, a very young Benjamin Disraeli, whose brilliant mind already displayed great powers of observation, verbal expression and manipulation of his elders and betters. Written in a fluent style, and drawing upon previously untapped original sources at The Bodleian Library and The John Murray Archive at The National Library of Scotland, the book presents documented proof that the events narrated are quite different from what has traditionally been accepted as truth, at the same time it unveils hitherto unknown facets of well-known figures of the age.

English newspapers --- Publishers and publishing --- Prime ministers --- Newspapers --- History. --- Disraeli, Benjamin, --- Murray, John, --- McMurray, John, --- Beaconsfield, --- London (England) --- History --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- 1800-1899 --- John Murray --- The Representative --- Disraeli

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The latest title in the acclaimed Questions and Analysis in History A Level series. Books in the series are for students aiming to achieve A grade success at A level.

Prime ministers --- Gladstone, W. E. --- Disraeli, Benjamin, --- Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, --- Author of Vivian Grey, --- Disraeli, B. --- Dizraėli, Bendzhamin, --- D'Izraeli, --- Runnymede, --- Vivian Grey, Author of, --- ביקאספעלד־ד׳איזראעלי, לארד, --- דישראלי, בנימין, --- דיזראעלי, ב. --- דיזראעלי, בנימין --- דיזרעאלי, בנימין, --- דיזרעלי, ב. --- דיזרעלי, בינימין, --- دزرائيلي، بنجامين، --- Gladston, Vilʹiam Evart, --- Gladstone, William Ewart, --- Gladston, Uĭli︠a︡m, --- Gladstone, William E. --- Chancellor of the Exchequer, --- Villiyam Evarṭ Kilāṭsṭan̲, --- Kilāṭsṭan̲, Villiyam Evarṭ, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Disraeli, Benjamin --- Biography --- 1837-1901