William Ewart Gladstone/Bibliography

Studies

• Aldous, Richard. The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli (2007)
• Bebbington, David, and Roger Swift, eds. Gladstone Centenary Essays (2000) online edition
• Bebbington, David. William Ewart Gladstone: Faith and Politics in Victorian Britain (1993)
• Biagini, Eugenio F. Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform: Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880 (1992), explains Gladstone's popularity by its conguence with popular political values
• Blake, Robert. Disraeli (1967), 819pp standard biography
• Buxton, S. C. Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer: A Study (1901), 197pp online edition
• Checkland, S. G. The Gladstones: A Family Biography 1764-1851 (1971)
• Cooke, A. B. and John Vincent. The governing passion: cabinet government and party politics in Britain, 1885–86 (1974)
• Crosby, Travis L. The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History. (1997). 287 pp.
• Daunton, Martin. Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914. (2002). 438 pp
• Ensor, Robert. England 1870-1914 (Oxford History of England Series) (1936), 652pp excerpt and text search; online edition
• Hammond, J. L. Gladstone and the Irish Nation (1938) online edition
• Harvie, Christopher. "Gladstonianism, the provinces and popular political culture, 1860-1906", in R. Bellamy, ed. Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-Century Political Thought and Practice (1990),
• Jenkins, T. A. Gladstone, Whiggery and the Liberal Party, 1874–1886 (1988)
• Kinzer, B. L., ed. The Gladstonian Turn of Mind: Essays Presented to J. B. Conacher (1985), essays by scholars
• Loughlin, J. Gladstone, home rule and the Ulster question, 1882–1893 (1986)
• Matthew, H. C. G. "Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Politics of Mid-victorian Budgets." Historical Journal 1979 22(3): 615-644. Issn: 0018-246x Fulltext: in Jstor]
• Meisel, Joseph S. Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone. (2001). 382 pp.
• Parry, J. P. Democracy and religion: Gladstone and the Liberal party, 1867–1875 (1986), 504 pp. excerpt and text search
• Ramm, Agatha. "Gladstone's Religion" The Historical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2. (Jun., 1985), pp. 327-340. in JSTOR]
• Ramm, Agatha. Gladstone as Man of Letters. A James Bryce Memorial Lecture (1981),
• Rathbone, Mark. "Gladstone, Disraeli and the Bulgarian Horrors: Mark Rathbone Compares Gladstone's and Disraeli's Differing Approaches to a Crucial Foreign Policy Issue." History Review #50 (2004) pp 3+. online edition
• Robinson, R., J. Gallagher, and A. Denny. Africa and the Victorians: The Climax of Imperialism in the Dark Continent (1961) online edition
• Schreuder, D. M. Gladstone and Kruger: Liberal government and colonial "home rule", 1880–85 (1969)
• Schroeder, Paul W. "Gladstone as Bismarck" Canadian Journal of History 1980 15(2): 163-195. Issn: 0008-4107 Fulltext: Ebsco, sees little real difference between the two in terms of the impact on Europe
• Seton-Watson, R. W. Disraeli, Gladstone and the eastern question: a study in diplomacy and party politics (1935) online edition
• Shannon, Richard. Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865-1898 (1999)
• Shannon, Richard. Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor 1809-1865 (1982)
• Shannon, Richard. Gladstone and the Bulgarian Agitation 1876 (1963) online edition
• Shaw, A. Gladstone at the colonial office, 1846 (1986)
• Steele, David. Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography (2001) online edition
• Thompson, A. F. "Gladstone's whips and the general election of 1868", English Historical Review, 63 (1948), 189–200 in JSTOR
• Vincent, John. Gladstone and Ireland (1978), argues his commitment to Home Rule in 1886 was unprincipled and possibly insincere.
• Vincent, John. The formation of the Liberal party, 1857–1868 (1966), suggests the party lacked deep values and that workers were misled into supporting it
• Windscheffel, Ruth Clayton. "Gladstone and Scott: family, identity and nation," Scottish Historical Review Volume 86, Number 1: No. 221, April 2007, online at Project Muse