Biography & Autobiography Historical
Benjamin Disraeli Letters
1842-1847, Volume IV
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1989
- Category
- Historical, History & Theory, Great Britain
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- ISBN
- 9780802099495
- Publish Date
- Oct 2009
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- ISBN
- 9780802029270
- Publish Date
- Nov 1993
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- ISBN
- 9781442671294
- Publish Date
- Dec 1997
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- $176.00
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- ISBN
- 9781442671270
- Publish Date
- Mar 1989
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- 9781442671287
- Publish Date
- Nov 1993
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- 9781442639508
- Publish Date
- Apr 1982
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- 9780802057365
- Publish Date
- Mar 1987
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- 9780802087287
- Publish Date
- Mar 2004
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- 9780802058102
- Publish Date
- Mar 1989
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- 9780802041371
- Publish Date
- Dec 1997
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Description
The 435 letters in this volume cover the most dramatic period of Disraeli's middle life - one which is still subject to continuing debate and interpretation, but the one in which the potential of his diverse talents at last begins to be realized. In his second Parliamentary session (1842 to 1847) the member for Shrewsbury establishes himself as the most exciting speaker in the House of Commons. The letters also provoke reassessment of the political splinter group 'Young England,' whose aims are nothing less than the purge and reform of the Conservative party. In 1947, as a peader of the Protectionists, he achieves his political goal of fifteen before: election as a member in his home county of Buckinghamshire.
In this period, too, he becomes a best-selling novelist, with his three 'condition of England' novels. Finally, as 'knight of the shire' and with his debts more manageable through the help and thrift of his wife, Mary Anne, he is in a position to realize another ambition, that of becoming a country gentleman, and begins the purchase of Hughenden Manor.
Ten appendixes include Disraeli's 1847 election canvass lists, his commonplace books of this period, and a complete inventory of the contents of his London residence, the collateral for a desperate loan in 1842.
About the authors
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Europe, spending three decades in British government and twice serving as prime minister, as well as being a well-known literary figure. A convert to Anglicanism, he was Britain's first and thus far only Prime Minister of Jewish heritage.
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M.G. Wiebe is the general editor of the Disraeli Project and a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Queen's University.