Title: Reading Gladstone
Description: "William Ewart Gladstone is a figure of central importance in British history who has normally and understandably been treated as a statesman, the role in which he achieved international fame. Reading Gladstone, however, investigates areas of his life which have rarely, if ever, been examined in the past: his role as village librarian, his synchronized collection of books and women, and the remarkable transformations that occurred in his (self- ) representation as a scholar-politician. By exploring the ways in which Gladstone's reading and book-collecting possessed significance in Victorian culture, Ruth Clayton Windscheffel's book makes a major contribution to fresh intellectual and cultural perspectives on the statesman."--Jacket.
Subjects: Books and reading, Prime ministers, Biography, History, St. Deiniol's Library, Books and reading, history, Gladstone, w. e. (william ewart), 1809-1898, Prime ministers, great britain, Great britain, biography