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Mary Drew (née Gladstone; 23 November 1847 – 1 January 1927) was a political secretary, writer, and hostess. She was the daughter of the British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, and achieved notability as his advisor, confidante and private secretary. She also attained a fair degree of political influence by controlling ...
Artist based in Hydra working with fibre. Seven Sleepers 2000 - 2023, 120 x 110 cm. Closing the Shutters of My World 2005 - 2022, 110 x 145 cm. Early a Morning Music 2021, 40 x 30 cm. Still 2019, 30 x 25 cm. Night School 2021, 40 x 45 cm. Clarity of Night 2015, 40 x 45 cm. Greening 2023, 60 x 50 cm.
5. Juli 2023 · "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.
21. Dez. 2018 · Mary Gladstone (1847–1927) is an intriguing woman. One of eight children born to Catherine and William Gladstone, she was a talented pianist and avid music lover, as well as serving as one of her father’s five private secretaries (from 1881) during his second period as Prime Minister. As Weliver explains, Mary Gladstone applied ...
- Sophie Fuller
- 2018
According to Masterman, Mary Gladstone met both Burne-Jones and Ruskin at he home of her friend Frances Graham, daughter of William Graham, a collector of pre-Raphaelite art (Masterman, Mary Gladstone: Her Diaries and Letters, 48).
- Susan K. Harris
- 2002
5. März 2015 · Dr Phyllis Weliver discusses the life of Mary Gladstone, daughter of William Gladstone, who was a master of 'soft diplomacy' and brought music-making to the heart of Downing Street. Show more
Vor einem Tag · Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism is the first book-length study of music and liberalism, of any period or place. Until now, statesmen and men of letters have been the focus of books about high Victorian liberals; my monograph presents how top-drawer music-making, led by a particularly prominent ...
