Mrs Gladstone Author:Mary Gladstone Drew General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons Subjects: ????????? ?????????? Gladstone Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Fiction / Classics Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origin... more »al. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II GIRLHOOD AND MARRIAGE IT was in November, 1838, that William Gladstone, then twenty-eight years of age, met the Glynnes at Naples. Being at Christ- church with the brothers, Stephen and Henry Glynne, he had already visited Hawarden Castle. He was one of a brilliant group of under-gradu- ates -- Lord Harris, the Duke of Hamilton, Canning, Lord Lincoln, Robin Curzon, afterwards Lord Zouche, Sir R. Phillimore,, Sir Francis Doyle -- who used to meet at Tabley in Cheshire, the young owner, Lord de Tabley, being also a neighbour and an intimate friend of the Glynne brothers. Mr. Gladstone arrived at one of the principal hotels in Naples and found it in a great commotion -- "Una gran famiglia Inglese e arrivata questa sera"; Lady Glynne and her daughters and suite, as was the fashion in those days, travelling in great state in their own roomy coach or Ber- line, as it was then called. At Naples he dined frequently with the Glynnes and accompanied them on their expeditions, going up Mount Vesuvius with them. He left Naples (he called it "this Circean City") for Rome on December 3rd, the Glynnes had already gone there; here the intercourse was more frequent, and his intimacy with the sisters grew in depth and devotion. Nearly every day they met, and he spent Christmas Day with them. There is a conversation recorded in his Diary that took place in the gorgeous Church of Santa Maria Mag- giore....« less