The Greville Memoirs : A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV and Queen Victoria (The Greville Memoirs 8 Volume Paperback Set)

Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke/ Reeve, Henry (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2011/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 516 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108030168
• DDC分類 942.081

Full Description

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865) was one of the most important English political and social diarists. Clerk to the Privy Council for over forty years, he mixed with all the great political names of the day, including Wellington, Melbourne, Palmerston and Peel. Greville was fascinated by people, and a great collector of information, believing that 'there is always something to be learned from everybody if you touch them on the points they know'. Greville always intended his diaries to be published after his death. They appeared in eight volumes between 1874 and 1887, and form an important historical source for the first half of the nineteenth century. Volume 6 covers the period December 1846 to September 1852. It includes the Irish famine, revolutions in Europe and Chartist demonstrations at home. It ends with anti-Catholic feelings and the death of the Duke of Wellington.

Contents

23. Death of Mr. Thomas Greville; 24. Return from Paris; 25. Panic in the money market; 26. The Revolution in France; 27. Anarchy in France; 28. Louis Blanc on France; 29. Difficult position of the government; 30. The case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter; 31. Accident to Sir Robert Peel; 32. Difficulties ahead; 33. Disraeli's Life of Lord George Bentinck; 34. The trial of strength; Appendices.