The Prime Minister's Son: Stephen Gladstone, Rector of Hawarden - Couverture souple

Aitken, Ros

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908258012 ISBN 13 : 9781908258014

Editeur : University of Chester Press, 2012

Synopsis

This newly researched biography presents an intimate picture of Stephen Gladstone, the previously ignored son of Prime Minister William Gladstone, whose life was tormented by the expectations and interference of his father, his mother Catherine and his sister Mary. This wide-ranging book sets his fascinating character, caught between duty and self-doubt,firmly in its historical context, tracing his progress through the horrors of a nineteenth-century prep school, his thirty-two years as the reluctant and restless Rector of Hawarden, his mysteriously acquired final incumbency and the desolating personal effects of the First World War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ros Aitken lives with her writer husband, Tom, in Richmond, Surrey. After a long career in teaching, Ros took early retirement and gained an MA from Birkbeck College, University of London. She then spent seven years in the library and archive at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, meanwhile developing an interest in the Gladstone family as a result of regular visits to the then St Deiniol's Library (now known as Gladstone's Library.) She has delivered numerous papers there and has had articles published in the Flintshire Historical Society Journal and the Women's History Magazine. This is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chester Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908258012
• ISBN 13: 9781908258014
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 307
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible