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Benjamin Disraeli Letters

1857-1859, Volume VII

by (author) Benjamin Disraeli

edited by Mary S. Millar, Ann P. Robson & M.G. Wiebe

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2004
Category
Historical, Letters, Great Britain
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802087287
    Publish Date
    Mar 2004
    List Price
    $295.00

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Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli’s charm and wit.

With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.

About the authors

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Europe, spending three decades in British government and twice serving as prime minister, as well as being a well-known literary figure. A convert to Anglicanism, he was Britain's first and thus far only Prime Minister of Jewish heritage.

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Mary S. Millar is an independent scholar and a co-editor with the Disraeli Project at Queen's University.

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Ann P. Robson is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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M.G. Wiebe is the general editor of the Disraeli Project and a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Queen's University.

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