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Before these two books, the male reader's heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine...
The P.M.'s Lady. "What a comfort to know there is One above who is able to tell us!" a lady once said in Catherine Gladstone's drawing room after discussing a theological point. "Yes," answered Catherine, "I think William will be down in a few minutes."
William Ewart Gladstone, his more ardent admirers were to become convinced, had been sent to earth to trounce the foul Tory fiend Benjamin Disraeli, to be four times Liberal Prime Minister of Britain and, finally, to translate God's blunt, muttered injunctions into eloquent sentences of interminable length. History...
Like most of the distinguished Glynne family Catherine was devoted to "Glynnese," a private language whose proper use was once demonstrated in a speech supposedly to be delivered by Gladstone in Parliament: "Sir, the Noble Lord opposite is such a phantod* and the Honourable Gentleman next to him such a...
These words, written by a Belgian nun in the register of St. Catherine's Female Academy at Benicia, Calif., were as important to Louise Hungerford as if they were inscribed in the Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood...