Title Mary Gladstone and the Victorian salon : music, literature, liberalism / Phyllis Weliver

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series New perspectives in music history and criticism New perspectives in music history and criticism. Contents Part I, Intellectual history: Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones -- The passion of liberalism -- The Victorian salon -- Music and the Gladstone salon -- Part II, Musical and literary case studies: Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music -- "There ought to be some melody in poetry" : Tennyson's salon readings --"Musical, I see!" : triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda -- Conclusion Summary 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 Pivoting around Mary's initiatives, this intellectual history draws on a trove of unpublished archival material that reveals for the first time the role of music in Victorian liberalism, explores its intersections with literature, recovers what the high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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2017) Subject Drew, Mary Gladstone, 1847-1927. Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 -- Family Drew, Mary Gladstone, 1847-1927 Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 Drew, Mary Gladstone 1847-1927 Gladstone, William Ewart 1809-1898 Private secretaries -- Great Britain -- Biography Socialites -- Great Britain -- Biography Musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Salons -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Music -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- History and criticism HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Families Music Musicians Private secretaries Salons Socialites Women -- Political activity Geistesleben Kultur Musik Politik Salon Great Britain Großbritannien Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 1316882586 9781316882580 1316886956 9781316886953

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