ACTON, GLADSTONE & OTHERS. [First Edn.]

by Drew, Mary Gladstone

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London:: Nisbet & Co., 1924. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; lightly scuffed at head of front cover.. + index. Daughter of British Prime Minister William Gladstone reminisces about his close friend, historian Lord Acton; her father's library (later St. Deiniol's Library in Wales); John Ruskin's marriage to Effie Gray that ended in annulment, & his later unrequited love for Rose Latouche; Tennyson's discussions with Laura Tennant; writings of Margot Tennant Asquith, wife of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. ||| First-hand knowledge of anecdotes known only by those `on the inside.'