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Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism

Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism

Weliver, Phyllis

Paperback

Series: New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism

Biographies GeneralGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1316636143
ISBN13: 9781316636145
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 19 2019
Pages: 323
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
The daughter of one of Britain's longest-serving Prime Ministers, Mary Gladstone was a notable musician, hostess of one of the most influential political salons in late-Victorian London, and probably the first female prime ministerial private secretary in Britain. Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high Victorian salon was within a wider cultural history, and shows Mary's influence on her father's work. Paying close attention to literary and biographical details, the book also sheds new light on Tennyson's poetry, George Eliot's fiction, the founding of the Royal College of Music, the Gladstone family, and a broad plane of wider British culture, including political liberalism and women, sociability, social theology, and aesthetic democracy.

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