Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew): Her Diaries and Letters

Langue : anglais

Edité par E.P. Dutton & Compnay, Inc., 1930

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No jacket. Page ridge and rear endpapers foxed, pencil marginalia on at least one page, ink name on front free endpaper. 1930 Hard Cover. xix, 492 pp. Mary Drew (nee Gladstone; 23 November 1847 - 1 January 1927) was a political secretary, writer, and hostess. She was the daughter of the British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling access to him. A keen diarist, Gladstone kept copious notes of her father's meetings and conversations, in addition to her own observations of late 19th-century political events. Her archives, "The Mary Gladstone Papers" (some of which were published by Lucy Masterman in 1930 under the title Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew), Her Diaries and Letters), are a much-used source of many 20th- and 21st-century biographies of leading figures of the day. The diary, which served as an emotional outlet, diminished in its thoroughness after her marriage, when what she had previously committed to paper she found she could instead commit to her husband. She wrote nothing at all for the seven years between 1904 and 1911, but picked it up again almost immediately after her husband died. She had intended for a time to publish the diaries herself, but, according to Lucy Masterman, the proofs "were considerably 'edited' and much of the raciness and individuality taken from them. They have therefore been discarded, except as evidence of an intention to publish, wherever the original MS. exists." Gladstone had an eccentric grammar, employing a sort of long dot as her generic period. Masterman (whom the diary describes at twenty-two as "rather a minx with forward priggy manners") took pains to edit out both this and the many banal lists of attendees at parties and dinners, along with the myriad accounts and analyses of symphony concerts, and evidence of her congenital dayums: "Anniversaries of births, christenings, confirmations, proposals, betrothals, deaths, and funerals were constantly noted, together, of course, with Saints' Days and Festivals of the Church.

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew): Her Diaries and Letters
Auteur
Masterman, Lucy
Éditeur
E.P. Dutton & Compnay, Inc.
Année de publication
1930
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
No Jacket
Reliure
Hard Cover
Langue
anglais
Poids de l'article
32 onces
Dimensions
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