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This loving tribute by her daughter reveals Mrs Gladstone as a personality of distinction in her own right, her happy family life, her sympathy for and her influence on her husband’s work. It has been the author’s privilege to share intimately her parents’ life from her birth to their death. Contents: Childhood and youth; Girlhood and marriage; Diaries in early married life; Letters from her; Letters to her; Characteristics; Good works; Reminiscences; “Via crucis—via lucis”; Genealogical table; Index and numerous illustrations.
+ Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
“Her book is more a series of impressions and reminiscences than a biography. It is none the less interesting and authoritative on that account, however, and will serve very well in the place of a more extended and formal biographical record.” E. F. E.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 28 ’20 1850w
“It is a little difficult for the outsider to know why three hundred pages were necessary to paint what must at best be a purely negative picture.” H. J. L.
− + New Repub 23:233 Jl 21 ’20 280w
“This volume should be heralded equally as a new chapter in the social and political history of the Victorian period and as a rare and beautifully filial tribute to a devoted mother, a highly accomplished and perennially charming woman.” F: T. Cooper
+ Pub W 97:1294 Ap 17 ’20 450w