Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV:
John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by their Contemporaries
Series Editors: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis and Michael Partridge
Volume Editors: David Martin, Denys P Leighton and William Anthony Hay
Lives of Victorian Political Figures
978 1 85196 919 7: 234x156mm: £295.00/$495.00
In Part IV of the series, the focus moves to Victorian political philosophers. Best known for his seminal work On Liberty (1859), John Stuart Mill’s influence as a liberal thinker extended widely. Raised as a Benthamite utilitarian by his father, who pushed him to work hard from a young age, Mill suffered from a nervous breakdown at the age of twenty. Thereafter, he sought to incorporate other philosophical ideas into his writing on themes at the centre of Victorian opinion. Deeply influenced by Kant and Hegel, Thomas Hill Green was a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Whyte’s Professor of Moral Philosophy (Oxford). He was a political radical and temperance reformer and when he died from blood poisoning at the age of 45, around 2000 people attended his funeral. William Morris was an artist, writer and socialist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He advocated a form of socialism based on medieval guild structures, which he thought would give craftsmen dignity in a mechanised age. Walter Bagehot became editor-in-chief of The Economist in 1860. Under his tenure, the periodical increased its influence with politicians and policy-makers, and still runs a column named after him.
Carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these key nineteenth-century figures were viewed by their contemporaries. The edition includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index. It will be vital to those studying Nineteenth-Century Studies, Political History and Philosophy.
- The first collection of contemporary political commentary on these figures as distinct from their other activities
- Fills a major gap in British Idealism scholarship
- Some texts are here printed for the first time, with many more coming from obscure and hard-to-trace sources
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Contents
Volume 1: John Stuart Mill
Anne Romilly, Romilly–Edgeworth Letters 1813–1818 [excerpt]; Thomas Moore, ‘Ode to the Sublime Porte’, The Times; [James Lorimer], ‘Mr Mill on Representative Government’, North British Review; W D Christie, ‘Mr John Stuart Mill for Westminster’, Macmillan’s Magazine; George Fitzhugh, ‘John Stuart Mill on Political Economy’, DeBow’s Review; William White, Illustrated Times; ‘Mr Mill’s Speech on Capital Punishment’, Westminster Review; Lord Dufferin, Mr Mill’s Plan for the Pacification of Ireland Examined; Frances Power Cobbe, ‘The Subjection of Women’, Theological Review: [Margaret Oliphant], ‘Mill on the Subjection of Women’, Edinburgh Review; [Bonamy Price], ‘Mr Mill on Land’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; [Abraham Hayward], ‘John Stuart Mill’, The Times; W T Thornton, ‘His Career at India House’, in H R Fox Bourne (ed), John Stuart Mill: Notices of His Life and Works; Millicent Garret Fawcett, ‘His Influence as a Practical Politician’, in H R Fox Bourne (ed), John Stuart Mill: Notices of His Life and Works; John Morley, ‘The Death of Mr Mill’, Fortnightly Review; [Herbert Cowell], ‘John Stuart Mill: An Autobiography’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine; [Henry Reeve], ‘Autobiography of John Stuart Mill’, Edinburgh Review; Charles W Dilke, ‘John Stuart Mill, 1869–1873’, Cosmopolis: An International Review; Frederic Harrison, ‘John Stuart Mill’, Nineteenth Century; George Jacob Holyoake, Bygones worth Remembering [excerpt]; Thomas Hardy, ‘A Glimpse of John Stuart Mill’, The Times
Volume 2: Thomas Hill Green and William Morris
Thomas Hill Green
R S Rait (ed), Memorials of Albert Venn Dicey [excerpt]; Mark Pattison, ‘Philosophy at Oxford’, Mind; H H Asquith, Some Aspects of the Victorian Age: The Romanes Lecture 1918 [excerpt]; L A Selby-Bigge, 'Practical Oxford: A Reply to Professor Goldwin Smith', Contemporary Review; Lewis R Farnell, An Oxonian Looks Back [excerpt]; ‘Professor Green on Temperance,’ Alliance News; ‘Morality by Act of Parliament,’ Alliance News; ‘Special Conference at Oxford,’ Alliance News; ‘The Oxford Election,’ Alliance News; ‘The Late Professor Green’ and ‘Memorial to Professor Green,’ Alliance News; William Cunningham, from ‘The Sense of Citizenship’ and ‘Personal Character’; Percy Alden, ‘Arnold Toynbee,’ Mansfield House Magazine; Richard Burdon Haldane, ‘The New Liberalism,’ Progressive Review; J H Muirhead, Reflections by a Journeyman in Philosophy on the Movements of Thought and Practice in His Time; F C Conybeare, ‘On Professor Green’s Political Philosophy,’ National Review; G F Barbour, ‘Green and Sidgwick on the Community of the Good,’ The Philosophical Review; Arthur Boutwood, Letter to second Viscount Halifax; ‘The Late Professor Green,’ Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette; ‘Death of Professor T H Green,’ Oxford Chronicle; ‘The Late Professor Green,’ Oxford Times; ‘Professor Thomas Hill Green,’ Church of England Temperance Chronicle; ‘The Late Professor Green’ and ‘Death of Professor T H Green,’ Alliance News; C A Fyffe, ‘The Late Professor T H Green,’ The Times; ‘Sermon by the President of Trinity,’ Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate's Journal; Richard Lewis Nettleship, 'Professor T H Green, In Memoriam', Contemporary Review; James Bryce, ‘Professor T H Green, In Memoriam,’ Contemporary Review
William Morris
John William Mackail, The Parting of the Ways, an Address [excerpt]; Emma Lazarus, ‘A Day in Surrey with William Morris,’ Century; Frederic W H Myers, ‘Modern Poets and the Meaning of Life,’ Nineteenth Century; Oscar L Triggs, ‘The Socialistic Thread in the Life and Works of William Morris,’ Poet-Lore; John William Mackail, William Morris [excerpt]; ‘Nephelococcygia-Lez-Hammersmith,’ Saturday Review; Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams, Being Autobiographical Notes [excerpts]; Edward Carpenter, ‘The Enchanted Thicket: An Appeal to the “Well-to-do”’; [Police reports], The Times; Edward Aveling, ‘Police Tyranny, To The Editor of The Times’, The Times; Eduard Bernstein, My Years of Exile: Reminiscences of a Socialist [excerpts]; Edward Carpenter, ‘William Morris,’ Freedom; Sam Mainwaring, ‘Reminiscences of William Morris, By A Working Colleague’, Freedom; Walter Crane, [tribute to Morris], Freedom; Peter Kropotkin, [tribute to Morris], Freedom; ‘William Morris, Poet and Artist’, Quarterly Review; R B Cunninghame Graham, ‘With the North-West Wind’, Saturday Review; Samuel G Hobson, Pilgrim to the Left, Memoirs of a Modern Revolutionist [excerpt]; J Bruce Glasier, The Meaning of Socialism [excerpts]
Volume 3: Walter Bagehot
[W R Greg], 'Literature', Economist; A V Dicey, 'Physics and Politics', Nation; A V Dicey, 'Bagheot’s Biographical Studies', Nation; R H Hutton, 'Walter Bagehot', Fortnightly Review; George Walker, 'Walter Bagehot and the Economist', Nation; George Walker, 'Walter Bagehot', Nation; George Barnett Smith, 'Walter Bagehot', Frasier’s Magazine; John Arbuckle, 'Journalism as Exemplified by Mr Bagehot', Scribners Monthly; Woodrow Wilson, 'A Literary Politician', Atlantic Monthly; Woodrow Wilson, 'A Wit and A Seer', Atlantic Monthly; John Morley, Recollections [excerpt]; M E Grant Duff, ‘Walter Bagehot: His Life and Works’, Out of the Past: Some Biographical Essays; Bonamy Price, 'Lombard Street', Fraser’s Magazine; William Newmarch, 'Lombard Street', Quarterly Review; Robert Giffen, 'Bagehot as an Economist', Fortnightly Review; R E Welby, 'Letter to the Economist', Economist; R E Welby, 'Letter to Mrs Russell Barrington'; R E Welby, 'Memorandum'; 'Bridgewater Election Arrival of Mr Bagehot, The Liberal Candidate', Bridgewater Mercury; 'University College', Daily News; 'University of London Election', Daily News; 'Representation of London University', Daily News; 'Science of Bribery', Reynolds Newspaper; Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Existence of Corrupt Practices; 'The Election Commissioners', Jackson’s Oxford Journal; 'Report of the Bridgewater Election Commissioners', Pall Mall Gazette; R H Hutton, obituary, Spectator; E J D Wilson, obituary, Examiner; Obituary, Langport Herald; Granville George Leveson-Gower, second Earl Granville, Speech at University College London; Letter of James Bryce to R H Hutton; Letter of James Bryce to Eliza Bagehot; Letter of James Bryce to Mrs Russell Barrington; James Bryce, 'Address of March 24, 1916'; Letters of William Gladstone to Eliza Bagehot