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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon : music, literature, liberalism / Phyllis Weliver (Saint Louis University)

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"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...

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Main Author: Weliver, Phyllis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:New perspectives in music history and criticism.
Subjects:
Drew, Mary Gladstone, > 1847-1927.
Gladstone, W. E. > (William Ewart), > 1809-1898 > Family.
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, > Baron, > 1809-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Private secretaries > Great Britain > Biography.
Socialites > Great Britain > Biography.
Musicians > Great Britain > Biography.
Women > Political activity > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Salons > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Music > Great Britain > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Gladstone, W. E. > (William Ewart), > 1809-1898.
Families.
Music.
Musicians.
Private secretaries.
Salons.
Socialites.
Women > Political activity.
Great Britain.
Biography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I, Intellectual history: Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones
  • The passion of liberalism
  • The Victorian salon
  • Music and the Gladstone salon
  • Part II, Musical and literary case studies: Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music
  • "There ought to be some melody in poetry" : Tennyson's salon readings
  • "Musical, I see!" : triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda
  • Conclusion.

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