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Acton, John, first Baron Acton, 37, 54, 64–66, 69, 75, 105 Asquith, Margot, see Margot Tennant and Mary Gladstone, 36, 60, 62, 63, 78, 192, 265–266 Atlas, Allan W., 138, 146 on W.E. Gladstone, 14, 75 autobiography, see life writing and liberalism, 53–54, 55 literary influences, 42, 242, 271 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 119, 147, 155, 159 and Tennyson, 232 Mass in B Minor, 157 Adorno, Theodor, 108 organ works, 40, 90 Aesthetic Critic, 152, 235, 241–242, 245, 248–250, 251, Bach Choir, 135, 164, 180 252, 258, 261, 267, 270 Bacon, Francis, 117 see also Matthew Arnold; George Eliot; Walter Pater; bagpipes, 266 Oscar Wilde Balfe, M.W., 219 Aestheticism, 108, 250, 251 Balfour, Alice, 119, 150 aesthetics, utility of, 40, 50, 90, 100, 102–103, 107–108, Balfour, Arthur, first Earl of Balfour, 52, 137, 175, 185 206, 263, 270, 271 character, 104–105, 139, 144 sympathy, 3–4, 111, 259 humor, 92, 136 spiritual, 27–32, 39, 105, 129 friendships, 36, 51–52, 62, 112, 144, 167 see also music, utility of; ritual and literature, 42 Afghanistan, 267 and music, 123, 131, 132, 139–140, 142, 150, 183 Albani, Emma, 132 concertina, 17, 138, 142, 150 Albert Hall, 40, 132, 142, 149, 159, 244, 247 Handel expert, 146–147 Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, 177, 179 religion, 31 Allegri, Gregorio, 243 residences Allingham, William, 239 4 Carlton Gardens, 139 Amiel, Henri-Frédéric, 173 Whittingehame, 138, 141, 150, 151, 185 Anderson, Amanda, 46, 49, 51, 251 works angels, 96, 131 “Aesthetic Values,” 152 see also Edward Burne-Jones “Handel,” 152, 153 Anglican Chant, 237, 238 Balfour, Eleanor, see Eleanor Sidgwick Arendt, Hannah, 61, 95, 97 Balfour family, 113, 142, 143 Arnold, Matthew, 45, 87, 107, 242, 249, 252, 260 Balfour, Frances, 102, 194 and Aesthetic Critic, 242 Balfour, Gerald, 62, 150 poems, 233 Bamford, Samuel, 229 works Baring, Harriet, see Harriet Lady Ashburton (1805–57) Culture and Anarchy, 24, 90, 108, 141, 270–271 Baring, Louisa, see Louisa Lady Ashburton (1827–1903) “Doing as One Likes,” 252 Bashford, Christina, 127, 128 “The Function of Criticism,” 249 Bashkirtseff, Marie, 173 Literature and Dogma, 252 Battersea, Constance, Lady, Baroness, see Constance “On Translating Homer,” 248 Flower “The Youth of Nature,” 24 Baudelaire, Charles, 83 art for art’s sake, 152, 254 Beardsley, Aubrey, 83 Ashburton, Harriet, Lady, Baroness (1805–57), 92, 98 Beatles, The, 226 Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, Baroness (1827–1903), 119, Beer, Gillian, 93 137 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 84, 115, 119, 123, 137, 139, 142, Asquith, H.H., 16 152, 156, 171, 268 and women’ssuffrage, 69 Fidelio, 155, 157

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Bell, Graham, 220 Cecil, Georgina, see Salisbury, Marchioness of Benedict, Julius, 135 Cecil, Robert, see Salisbury, third Marquess of Benhabib, Selya, 61, 95, 97, 167, 174, 271 cello, 132 Bennett, William Sterndale, 188 Chadwick, Owen, 65 Benson, Edward Frederic, 129 chant, 243 Benson, Edward White, 52, 74, 81 see also Anglican chant; Alfred Tennyson Berlioz, Hector, 132 Charity Organization Society, 2, 18–19, 23, 48, 52, 183, 271 biography, see life writing Charteris, Mary, Countess of Wemyss, see Mary Lady Bishop, Henry, 132 Elcho Bishop Creighton House, 19, 23 Chopin, Frédéric, 154, 245, 271 Blackwell, Elizabeth, 71 Christian, Bertram, 192, 193 Blackwood, John, 252, 254 Church, Richard William, 25, 33, 153, 261, 266 Bourdieu, Pierre, 67, 70, 79 Church of England, 20, 27, 36, 47, 55, 238, 244 Boyle, Eleanor Vere, 213 appointments, 2, 24, 71, 73–74, 75, 79, 80, 243, 261 Bradley, George, 73, 80 music Brahms, Johannes, 84, 90, 123, 132, 137, 147 choral, 31, 33 Brandt, Marianne, 155 hymns, 4, 25, 32 Breadalbane, Marquess of, 266 progressive, 25–26 Breakfasts, see salon oratory, 31, 34, 237, 238 Bridge, Frederick, 185 see also Anglican Chant; ritual Brontë, Charlotte, 263 Clarke, Peter, 4, 5, 21, 46, 49, 53 Brown-Westhead, Joshua Proctor, 106 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 23 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 206, 223 Commonwealth, The, see Henry Scott Holland Aurora Leigh, 40, 44, 89, 264 concertina, see Arthur Balfour Browning, Robert, 62, 92, 115, 201 Condition of England, The, 2, 5 Burke, Edmund, 149 Conservative Party, 47 Burnand, Frank C. Contagious Diseases Acts, Repeal of, 31 Cox and Box, 148 Contemporary Review,41 “My heart is true to Poll,” 133 Cook, Eliza, 106 Burne-Jones, Edward, 34, 62, 271 Cooper, Anthony Ashley, see Shaftesbury, third Earl of affair, 63 Costa, Michael, 146 “Angel Musicians,” 31 country house, see parties and Mary Gladstone, 36, 38, 60, 63, 64, 265, 266 Covent Garden, 155 Burne-Jones, Georgiana, 64 Cowell Stepney, Margaret, 62, 109 Burrow, J.W., 108 hostess, 113 Bushell, Sally, 204 Cowper, William Butler, H. Montague, 237 The Iliad of Homer, Translated into English Blank Butler, Josephine, 49, 71 Verse by W. Cowper, 233, 240 Butterfield, William, 264 Crew, Mary, 64 criticism, 150, 251 Cambridge, see University of Cambridge triangulated, 131, 242, 243, 246–247, 248, 249, 252, Campbell, Gavin, first Marquess of Breadalbane, see 255–258, 264, 268, 271 Breadalbane, Marquess of Crystal Palace, 151, 189 Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 229 see also Handel Festival; Saturday Concerts Carlyle, Thomas, 23, 33, 69, 96, 108, 270 Cunningham, Valentine, 216 Carnegie, Andrew, 183, 184 Carroll, Lewis, see Charles Dodgson Dakyns, Henry Graham, 216, 237 Carter, Kathryn, 174 Dannreuther, Edward, 39, 85, 109 Catullus, Gaius Valerius, 216 Dante Alighieri, 69, 113, 163, 201, 241, 258, 261 Cavendish, Lucy, 3, 17, 18, 63, 104 see also Mary Gladstone and female education, 68 da Sousa Correa, Delia, 162 Cavendish, Spencer Compton, Marquess of Hartington Davis, Tracy, 49 and eighth Duke of Devonshire, see Dayan, Peter, 154 Hartington, Marquess of Delacroix, Eugène, 245

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Derby, fourteenth Earl of Ella, John, 127–128 The Iliad of Homer Rendered into English Blank Verse, see also Musical Union 233, 240 Ellenberger, Nancy W., 6, 63, 118, 140, 144 de Rothschild, Constance, see Constance Flower English Musical Renaissance, 147, 172, 270 de Rothschild, Hannah, see Rosebery, Countess of national musical progress, 159, 198 Descartes, René, 61 English Opera Company, 84 de Vere, Aubrey, 29, 237 Dibble, Jeremy, 26, 85, 89 Fawcett, Millicent, 71, 82 Dickens, Charles, 134 Field, Michael, 42 Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 92, 179 Flower, Constance, 37, 75 dinners, 16, 34, 105, 112–114, 136, 141, 171, 190, 200, 263 Fothergill, Jessie, 92 and music, 35, 114, 129, 134, 266, 271 Foucault, Michael, 46, 53, 96 disinterestedness, 47, 49, 53, 66, 104, 252, 253, 255, 258, Fuhrmann, Wolfgang, 256 259, 261, 271 Fuller, Sophie, 89 Disraeli, Benjamin, 13, 59, 108 Fuller Maitland, J.A., 148, 151, 159, 160 on W.E. Gladstone, 57–58 policies, 55–56, 188 Gagnier, Regenia, 174 and Queen Victoria, 74 gaze, public, 14, 240, 263, 264, 267–268 Dodgson, Charles, 93 see also criticism, triangulated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 139 Gladstone, Agnes, see Agnes Wickham Dowling, Linda, 51, 61, 88, 100, 106, 107, 108, 206, Gladstone, Catherine, 15–16 269, 270 charity work, 15–16, 114, 133, 134, 193 Downing Street, see Gladstone family and music, 171, 188 Drew, Dorothy, 3, 16, 41 hostess, 115, 116, 121, 176, 231, 233 Drew, Harry, 12, 20, 41, 102 influence on W.E. Gladstone, 80 marriage, 16, 42, 79, 135, 265 marriage, 17 private sector support, 192 motherhood, 63, 195 Drew, Mary, see Mary Gladstone and music, 134, 142 du Maurier, George, 90 political work, 1, 11, 14, 59, 81, 266 Duke of Albany, see Leopold, Duke of Albany Gladstone, Gertrude, 231, 232 Duke of Edinburgh, see Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh Gladstone, Helen, 16, 72, 77, 192, 231, 232 Düsseldorf, see Lower Rhenish Festival and Mary Gladstone, 60, 69, 78 on W.E. Gladstone, 55 Eastern Question, The, 50, 54, 55–57, 108, 141, 230, 234, and music, 150, 268 240, 250, 261, 262 and Newnham College, 14, 21, 69, 141, 263 Edison, Thomas, 220, 221 private sector support, 184 educational reform, 23, 68–69 and Women’s University Settlement, 18 Edward, Prince of Wales, 56, 116, 117, 118, 177, 179, 186, Gladstone, Henry Neville (Harry), 16, 184, 195 187 and music, 132 Elcho, Mary Constance, Lady, 140, 144, 175 Gladstone, Herbert John, 75, 190, 195 Eley, Geoff,95 and diary keeping, 41, 175 Elgar, Edward, 110, 165 on W.E. Gladstone, 58 Eliot, George, 23, 89, 91, 102, 196, 246, 247, 254, 262, 263, on Gladstone family, 12, 101 270, 271 as Keble College tutor, 20, 268 and Aesthetic Critic, 242, 269 and music, 131–132, 133, 178 and progressive music, 246 political career, 16, 77 and salon, 241, 245 Edward Talbot’sinfluence on, 47–48, 49, 80, 110 works prime ministerial private secretary, 72, 73 Adam Bede, 263 private sector support, 182, 184 Daniel Deronda, 28, 109–110, 242, 243–244, 249, on the Souls, 144 250, 251, 252–265, 266, 267, 268, 269 and women’ssuffrage, 69–70 “Heinrich Heine,” 94 Gladstone, Mary, 16, 35–38, 221 The Mill on the Floss, 263 administrative assistant, 36, 50, 75, 80, 262 “Notes on Form in Art,” 254 archivist, 37, 38

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Gladstone, Mary (cont.) “Mr. Gladstone’s Library at ‘St. Deiniol’s charity work, 11, 44, 268 Hawarden’,” 194 as critic, 41, 150, 249 Some Hawarden Letters 1876–1913, 193 diary, 39–44, 171–172, 173, 176–177, 189–191, 194, see also gaze, public 195, 196, 198 Gladstone, Stephen, 16, 19, 48, 232 discursive style, 122 Gladstone, William Ewart, 1–2, 6, 13–15, 35, 49, 64, 165, education of, 69, 272 178, 191–192 friendships, 36, 60–66, 139 and aesthetics, 108 and W.E. Gladstone, 194, 195, 197–198 Chancellor of the Exchequer, 163 home daughter, 11, 41–42, 267 diary keeping, 41, 175, 190 hostess, 91, 100–102, 108, 112, 116, 121–123, 135, humor, 51, 92, 94, 143 136–137, 163, 166, 196, 270 Liberal Party founder, 45 connection with private secretaryship, 66–67, 79, and literature, 194, 197, 200–201, 230, 231, 233–235, 122, 123, 124 236 humor, 93, 101 and sound, 236, 239, 272 influence, 60, 63, 76, 78, 122, 124, 187, 189, 244, 267, Lord Rector of Glasgow University, 267 269 marginalia, 26–29, 34, 38, 94, 106, 233, 250 literary criticism, 38, 39, 121, 194, 264, 272 marriage, 16, 17, 133 Dante, 72, 266, 272 and music, 129, 133–134, 150, 151, 166, 178–179, 180, George Eliot, 81, 240, 243, 271 181, 183, 187, 188 Margaret Oliphant, 197 and party government, 105 John Ruskin, 153 passionate energy of, 83–84, 271 Alfred Tennyson, 200, 230, 231, 232 and political message, 14–15, 47, 55, 60, 262 and moral regeneration, 4–5, 19, 22–23, 24–25, 46, cross-class appeal of, 14–15, 58, 59, 60, 86, 166 47–48, 159 and religion, 54–55, 66, 75 and music, 44, 82, 134–135, 152, 197 private sector support, 182, 183 analysis of, 40, 126, 130, 149, 153–155, 160, 173, public response to, 1–2, 268 202, 249–250 rhetorical style of, 252 fund raising, 183–184 schedule, 50, 262 Handel expert, 147–148, 186 and second administration, 2, 6, 11, 45, 72, 74, 116, 230 pianist, 2, 65, 90, 131, 134, 136, 150, 151, 152, 160, social behavior of, 87, 92 162, 163, 235, 250, 268, 271 travels, 73, 195, 265 public programming, 148, 151 and Wagner’s operas, 83–84, 183 score notation, 155–159 and women’s causes sheet music, 87, 136 suffrage, 70 singing, 133, 135 university education, 68–69 prime ministerial private secretary, 2, 4, 11, 36, 47, 68, works 79, 82, 135, 171, 174, 186, 189, 270 Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, 57, application to, 73, 76, 78 83, 262 duties, 73–75, 76–77, 78 “The First Book of The Iliad,” 233, 236 and women, 76–79 “The Hellenic Factor in the Eastern Problem,” 234, private sector support, 182, 192–193, 198 235, 239 public relations role, 36–37, 193–194 “Montenegro: A Sketch,” 234 and Royal College of Music, 184–186, 270 Gladstone, William Henry, 16, 231 vocational search, 244, 263, 264, 265 and music, 129, 131, 132, 164, 180–181 and Wagner’s music, 84–85, 248, 249 Gladstone family, 1, 6, 13–21, 54, 101, 107, 143, 176, 191, and women’ssuffrage, 2, 70 193, 194–195, 206, 255 works, 37, 40–41, 53, 70, 101, 191–193, 194 education of, 16, 17 Acton, Gladstone and Others, 194 habits of, 31, 75, 150, 272 Catherine Gladstone, 193 and liberalism, 11–12, 268 A Forty Years’ Friendship, 193 and music, 51, 131–135, 189 Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right recitations, 204, 229, 231, 232–233, 261, 271 Hon. W.E. Gladstone, 193 residences Letters to M.G. & H.G., 192 Hawarden, 13, 15, 16, 17, 113, 114, 117, 131, 132, “Lord Acton’s Legacy to Liberals,” 53, 194 133, 134, 141, 166, 181, 204

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London, 15, 87, 115, 120 Israel in Egypt, 139, 146 11 Carlton House Terrace, 17, 90, 105, 115, Jeptha, 150, 151 116–117, 118, 136 Messiah, 138, 149, 150, 256 10 and 11 Downing Street, 66, 76, 90, 115, 116, Saul, 133 120, 123, 178 Handel Choir, 133 Gladstone governess, see Martha Walters Ridge Syfret Handel Festival, 128, 131, 139, 146, 148 Gladstone staff, 132 Handel Society, 135 see also Auguste Schlüter Harris, Susan K., 77, 122 glee singing, 51, 132, 133, 219 Hartington, Marquess of and eighth Duke of Glynne family, 15 Devonshire, 49 Godfrey, G.W., 250 Hawarden Castle, see Gladstone family, residences Godley, J.A., 72, 73, 77, 78, 79, 189 Hawarden Institute, Armoury and Gymnasium, 182 Reminiscences of Lord Kilbracken,77 Haweis, H.R., 85 Goldschmidt, Otto, 119, 135, 180 Hay, Daisy, 6 Goldschmidt-Lind, Jenny, see Jenny Lind Haydn, Joseph, 148 Goozé, Marjanne E., 119 Hegel, G.W.F., 12, 22, 23, 48, 53, 107 Gore, Charles, 27, 101 Heine, Heinrich, 260 Gosse, Edmund, 192 Helsinger, Elizabeth, 203 Gounod, Charles, 132 Henschel, Georg, 241 Faust, 132 Herbert, John Rogers, 32 Gouraud, George E., 222 Herbert, Maude, see Maude Parry Graham, Frances, 161, 162 Her Majesty’s Theatre, 83 Grant Duff, Mountstuart, 111 Herz, Henriette, 91 Granville, second Earl, 56–57, 92 Hewitt, Martin, 174, 177 Green, Charlotte, 72 Hill, Octavia, 52 Green, Thomas Hill, 252, 263–264 Holland, Henry Scott, 18, 33, 35, 52, 113 on music, 260, 266 Christian Social Union, 30 theories, 5, 12–13, 21–23, 29, 32, 53, 96, 110, 138 The Commonwealth,31 and women’s education, 72 and Mary Gladstone, 20, 64, 138, 193 see also philosophy, British Idealist on W.E. Gladstone, 83 Griffiths, Eric, 202 influence, 81 Grillion’s Club, 110 literary criticism, 40, 103, 192 Grove, George, 93, 147, 148, 188, 189, 197, 244 Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt,30 and Royal College of Music, 178, 180, 183, 184–189 and music, 30–31, 32, 148, 248 “Home, Sweet Home,” 132, 161 Habermas, Jürgen, 95 Homer, 113, 149 Hadley, Elaine, 45, 49 Iliad, 84, 233, 234 Hagley Hall, see Lyttelton family, residences see also William Cowper; Derby, fourteenth Earl of; Hallam, Arthur, 201, 204, 214–215, 221, 227, 235 W.E. Gladstone; Alexander Pope Hallé, Sir Charles, 125, 161 Horkheimer, Max, 108 Hallé, The, 157 hostess, 97, 196, 271 Hallé, Wilma, Lady, see Wilma Norman Neruda see also Margaret Cowell Stepney; Catherine Hamilton, Edward, 130 Gladstone; Mary Gladstone The Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton,77–78 Houghton, first Baron, see Richard Monckton Milnes on W.E. Gladstone, 75, 190 Houseman, Victoria, 21, 22, 36, 81 and music, 115, 116, 177 Hueffer, Francis, 85 prime ministerial private secretary, 65, 72 Hughes, Meirion, 180 and Wagner, 82 humor, 43, 103, 143 Handel, George Frideric, 40, 90, 123, 135, 137, 138, 140, bathos and pathos, 140, 148–150, 160, 256 142, 145–146, 147, 151, 155, 159, 241 epithet, 93 works evasive, 144 Belshazzar, 142, 146 and private sector support, 182 Deborah, 156, 159 social utility of, 88, 93–94, 143–144 Heracles, 135 see also music

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Hutchison, Hazel, 203 deﬁnitions of, 45, 46, 51, 242–243 Hutton, Richard Holt, 233 see also disinterestedness; women hymns, see Church of England liberalism, lived, 6, 49, 51–53, 59, 76–77, 78, 104, 105, 137, 138, 140, 167, 252 immanence, divine, 22, 26, 85, 107, 159, Liberal Party, 1, 13, 45, 53 264, 272 message, 1, 12, 54 India, 69, 195, 267 and national music curriculum, 128 Irving, Henry, 222 Liddon, Henry Parry, 31, 33, 141, 183, 262 life writing James, Henry, 89, 166, 248, 251 Breakfast Books, 115 The Bostonians, 166 commemorative, 99, 192 “Daniel Deronda: A Conversation,” 250–251, 257 correspondence, 194–196 Madame de Mauves,48 co-written, 42 Princess Casamassima,48 diary Janotha, Natalie, 151, 218, 219 confessional, 173 Jarvis, Simon, 235 as conversational object, 176 Joachim, Joseph, 119, 133, 137, 146, 155, 156, theories of, 172–174, 176–177 171, 185, 186 and musical score insertions, 159 and Mary Gladstone, 2, 84, 109, 128, 129, 136, 190 domestic memoir, 191 humor, 148 sources, 38, 152 “Rain, Rain, and Sun,” 217 Lind, Jenny, 133, 135, 190 Jowett, Benjamin, 229 Liszt, Franz, 2, 91, 134, 245, 246 paintings of, 246 Kale, Steven D., 91, 123 Lloyd George, David, 72, 117–118 Kant, Immanuel, 22, 23 Locke, John, 61 Keble College group, 13, 20, 23–24, 29, 31, 96, 101, 103, Longenbach, James, 235 107, 153, 160, 162, 194, 243 Longinus, 149 political inﬂuence of, 36, 49, 71, 80–81 Lower Rhenish Festival, Düsseldorf, 91, 94 see also Lux Mundi Lux Mundi, 23, 27–28 Knollys, Francis, 187 party, see Keble College group Lyttelton, Alfred, 19, 76, 113, 145, 162, 244 l’art pour l’art, see art for art’s sake and music, 131, 139 Lathbury, D.C., 54 and women’s opportunities, 79 Leavis, F.R., 251–252 Lyttelton, Arthur, 20, 21, 27, 31, 184 Ledbetter, Kathryn, 234 and music, 131 Lee, Vernon, 39 see also Selwyn College, Oxford Euphorion,40 Lyttelton, Edith, see Edith Santley Miss Brown, 90, 248 Lyttelton, Edward, 20, 132, 184 Leicester Warren, Margaret, see Margaret Cowell Lyttelton, George, fourth Baron Lyttelton and fourth Stepney Baron Westcote, 17, 68, 143 Leighton, Angela, 235 Lyttelton, Laura, see Laura Tennant Leighton, Frederic, 109, 171 Lyttelton, Lavinia, see Lavinia Talbot Leopold, Duke of Albany, 179 Lyttelton, Lucy, see Lucy Cavendish Leveson-Gower, George, 72 Lyttelton, May, 43, 107, 137, 144 Leveson-Gower, Granville George, see Granville, second and music, 39, 119, 151 Earl Granville Lyttelton, Meriel, see Meriel Talbot Lewes, George Henry, 246, 254 Lyttelton, Robert, 20, 132 salon, 241 Lyttelton, Spencer, 19, 144 Life of Goethe,69 humor, 93–94 liberal and music, 39, 87, 116, 119, 131, 135, 139, and Aesthetic Critic, 248 178, 185, 186 behavior, 3 prime ministerial private secretary, character, 48, 49–50, 56, 57, 98, 107, 130, 137, 138, 144, 72, 77 145, 152, 159, 173, 182, 230–231 Lyttelton, Sybella, 119, 151

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Lyttelton, William Henry, 3, 101, 104, 143 Nilsson, Christina, 40 “Laughter,” 143 Nineteenth Century, The, 37, 70 Lyttelton family, 17–18, 19–20, 31, 107, 112, 176 Norman Neruda, Wilma, 32, 115, 123, 135, 171, 186 and music, 38 novels residences salon in, 89–90 Hagley Hall, 17, 114 utility of, 3, 48, 103 London, 17 Oliphant, Margaret, 89, 196–197 MacColl, Malcolm, 63, 262 Ollard, S.L., 193 Macfarren, George W., 62 ontic logos, 61, 97, 173 Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell, 130 Optimist, The,53 Maitland, F.W., 65 oratory, see Church of England Manns, August, 138, 147–148 organ, 25, 26, 71, 131, 132, 133, 135, 266 March-Phillipps, Lisle, 193 see also Alfred Tennyson Massenet, Jules, 132 Ottley, Edward Bickersteth, 113, 265 Masterman, Lucy, 77, 91, 122, 152 Oxbridge, 5, 13, 18, 20, 21, 47 Mary Gladstone (Mrs. Drew): Her Diaries and Letters, Oxford, see University of Oxford 41 Oxford Gymnasium, 182 Mazzinghi, Joseph, 133 Oxford House, 18 McCormack, Kathleen, 89 Oxford Idealists, see Keble College group Mendelssohn, Felix, 91, 155, 166 “Ye Spotted Snakes,” 93 Paget, Francis, 20, 30, 32, 160 Meredith, George Palestine Exploration Fund, 244 The Egoist,94 Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 243 Essay on Comedy, 94, 145 Pall Mall Gazette, The, 36, 41, 182, 193 Sandra Belloni,89 Palmer, Edward, 80 Midlothian campaign, 1–2, 11, 25, 45, 47, 55, 57, 58–60, Parish, Francis, 41 113, 114, 132, 265, 266–268, 272 Parkes, Bessie Rayner, 246 Mill, John Stuart, 45, 79, 117 Parry, C. Hubert H., 35, 38 Milnes, Richard Monckton, ﬁrst Baron Houghton, 92, courtship, 176 99, 111 dining with, 135, 136 Milton, John, 117, 141, 233, 238, 240 “Lotos Eaters, The,” 206–207, 216, 217; see also Alfred missions, domestic, 25, 47 Tennyson Monday Popular Concerts, 138, 154 pianist, 29, 32, 90, 130, 131, 136, 139, 151, 159, 268, 271 moral regeneration, see Mary Gladstone reviews of, 147 Morley, John, 54 Royal College of Music faculty, 185, 186, 270 Moscheles, Charlotte, 241, 263, 268 and Tennyson, 201, 202 Moscheles, Ignaz, 241 on Wagner’s music, 247–248 Mozley, J.B., 233 Parry, Jonathan, 45, 50, 53, 54, 55 music Parry, Maude, 176 festivals: see Handel Festival; Lower Rhenish Festival parties, 66, 116 and humor, 34, 51, 140, 141–142, 145, 150 country house, 109, 126, 141, 271 and literature, 154, 269 see also dinners and male amateurs, 34 Pater, Walter, 39, 107, 249, 252, 253 progressive school of, 245 and Aesthetic Critic, 242, 260, 265 utility of, 50–51, 57, 71, 85, 88, 97, 98, 125, 126, 130, Studies in the History of the Renaissance, 249, 252 134, 137, 160–161, 164, 172, 174, 180, 266, paternalism, 12, 14, 21 268–269, 270 see also Gladstone family Musical Union, 127, 128, 136 Patmore, Coventry, 67 Patti, Adelina, 137 National Training School of Music, 177 Pauer, Ernst, 185, 186 Nicolini, Ernesto, 132 Paul, Herbert, 193 Nicoll, Robertson, 192 Pekacz, Jolanta T., 99, 166 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 96 Pennant, Eleanor, 231–232

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Peterson, Linda H., 191 as Midlothian campaign manager, 60, 266, 267 philosophy, British Idealist, 2, 4, 5, 19, 21–23 and music, 177, 183 see also Thomas Hill Green; Keble College group as Prime Minister, 68 phonograph, see Alfred Tennyson Rossini, Gioacchino piano, 131, 132, 133, 134, 166 Otello, 258 see also Mary Gladstone; Charles Hallé; C. Hubert Semiramide, 248 H. Parry Rothschild, de, see Constance Flower; Countess of Piatti, Alfredo, 171 Rosebery Picker, John, 199 Rowlinson, Matthew, 203 Plotz, John, 95 Royal Academy of Music, 180, 188 poet, 24 Royal College of Music, 38, 126, 128, 172, 174, 198, 272 poetic subjectivity, 40, 44 council of, 116, 178, 187 poetry, 94 establishment of, 177 as event, 230 and national subsidy, 187–188 and music, 201–202, 203, 204, 235, 271 Rubery, Matthew, 223 utility of, 3 Ruskin, John, 25, 39, 107 Ponsonby, Henry, 98, 119 and Mary Gladstone, 33, 36, 60, 63, 192 Ponsonby, Mary Elizabeth, 94, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103 and Guild of St. George, 126, 164–165 Pope, Alexander at Hawarden, 113–114, 126, 153, 162–166, 167 The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, and music, 160, 161–162, 164, 272 233, 240 politics, 52, 108 Peri Bathous, 150 works The Rape of the Lock, 233 Elements of English Prosody, 164, 217 Preece, W.H., 219 “Lectures on Art,” 164 prime ministerial private secretaries, see secretaries Modern Painters, 153, 162 Primrose, Archibald, fifth Earl of Rosebery and first Earl “Of Queen’s Gardens,” 67 of Midlothian, see Rosebery, fifth Earl of Rock Honeycomb, 164 Primrose, Hannah, Countess of Rosebery, see Rosebery, The Stones of Venice, 2, 153, 154 Countess of Russell, George, 115 Primrose, Henry, 72 Prince of Wales, see Edward, Prince of Wales St. Anne’s, Soho, 31 Prins, Yopie, 202, 216 St. James’s Hall, 40, 135, 155, 157, 171, 218 Punch, 178, 189 see also Monday Popular Concerts; Saturday Popular Concerts Raff, Joachim, 90 St. Paul’s Cathedral, 18, 25–26, 30, 31, 32–33, 153 Rahel, see Rahel Levin Varnhagen see also Henry Scott Holland Rawnsley, Willingham Franklin, 120, 238 Salisbury, Marchioness of, 11, 52, 142 Rayleigh, third Baron, see John William Strutt Salisbury, third Marquess of, 52 Reeves, Sims, 149 salon Richter, Hans, 244–245 American, 166 Richter Concerts, 30, 135 Breakfasts, 111–112 Riley, Denise, 95 British, 92, 98, 99, 100, 102–104, 141 Ritchie, Emily, 205, 207 definition of, 13, 34, 91 ritual, 2, 5, 24–25, 32, 50, 71, 102, 103, 143, 202, 238, 243 associational, 96–97, 98, 167, 172, 174, 271 Robertson, Sophie, 87, 268 spatial, 91, 95–96, 97 Rolfe, William James, 229 French, 34, 91, 92, 98, 99, 100, 108, 134, 166 Romanticism, 23–24, 229, 271 German, 91–92 Rome, 43, 58, 134 Gladstone’s Breakfasts, 63, 79, 90–91, 108–109 Rosa, Carl, 84, 130, 183, 190 autograph books, 114–115 Rosebery, Countess of, 54, 64, 114, 183 definition of, 34, 52, 61–62, 112, 114–116, 137, 161, Rosebery, fifth Earl of and first Earl of Midlothian, 35, 54, 245 115 location of, 116–117 and Mary Gladstone, 36, 63, 64, 78, 175 participation by W.E. Gladstone, 116, 117, 119–120 and W.E. Gladstone, 65 seating at, 117

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significance to W.E. Gladstone, 61, 110–111, 115, Tales of Work,39 138 “A Teacher of the Violin,” 130 structure of, 118–119, 123 Sidgwick, Eleanor, 43, 81, 119, 137, 142 Italian, 91, 92 and music, 150 listeners, 231, 235, 268 Sidgwick, Henry, 43, 81, 119 in paintings, 256 singing class, 133, 135 and music, 6, 34, 109, 115, 125, 128, 174, 196–197, 271 sociability, 97, 101–102, 192, 271 Christianity, 29–32 social purity, 2, 30–31, 34, 71, 262 continental influence, 125, 127–128 social sphere, 71, 88, 94–95, 174, 271 diplomacy, 62, 126, 161, 166, 167 as discursive action, 95, 96–97, 99, 102, musicians, 37, 87, 88, 128, 129–130, 137 104, 105, 106, 110, 112, 114, 115, 117–118, repertoire, 119, 129 119–120, 121 Russian, 92 etiquette of, 112–114 significance in Britain, 5–7, 33–34, 35, 61, 88–90 and W.E. Gladstone, 120–121 sociability, 97 music as, 88, 108–109 and wit, 92–93, 98, 108, 121 social theology, 2, 29, 44, 102, 126, 255, 260, 264 see also social sphere Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 192 salonniere,7 Souls, The, 118, 144–145 Sand, George, 154, 245 Sounding Tennyson, 202, 224 Santley, Edith, 20 soundscape, 219 Saturday Concerts, 138 South Africa, 16, 35, 41 Saturday Popular Concerts, 151, 155 Spohr, Louis, 137 Savonarola, Girolamo, 241 Stainer, John, 26, 85, 119 Schiller, Friedrich, 107, 108 Stanford, Charles Villiers, 26, 85, 185, 186, 212, 213, 217, Schlüter, Auguste, 72–73, 132–133 237, 238 Schmid, Susanne, 91, 92 Stanley, Edward Smith, fourteenth Earl of Derby, see Schopenhauer, Arthur, 96 Derby, fourteenth Earl of Schreiner, Olive, 96 Stead, William T., 182, 193–194 Schubert, Franz, 155, 166 Steeves, Edna Leake, 150 Schumann, Clara, 151, 155, 246 Steytler, Charles, 219, 220 Schumann, Robert, 90, 139, 147, 151, 268, 271 Stoker, Bram, 201, 212–213, 214, 222 Scott, Walter, 163 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 262 secretaries, prime ministerial private, 65 Stradling, Robert, 180 influence of, 67 Strutt, John William, 142 and music, 116 Strutt, Richard, 142 organization of, 72 sublime, 149 see also Herbert Gladstone; Mary Gladstone; Edward Sullivan, Arthur, 2, 155 Hamilton; Spencer Lyttelton Cox and Box, 148 self, in relation, 5–6, 21–22, 24, 27–29, 51, 101, 131, 138, Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 34 140, 145, 160, 192, 249 Poems and Ballads,34 see also criticism, triangulated Syfret, Martha Walters Ridge, 66, 69 settlement houses, see Bishop Creighton House; Oxford Symonds, John Addington, 72, 236 House; Women’s University Settlement Seymour, Horace, 72, 73, 78 Tait, Archibald Campbell, 177 Shaftesbury, third Earl of, 93, 106, 107 Talbot, Edward, 18, 20, 35, 52, 53, 107, 182, Shakespeare, William, 114, 115, 232, 233, 242 193, 261 Hamlet, 205, 233, 234, 240 and Keble College group, 20, 23, 27, 28 King Henry VIII, 175 as political advisor, 47–48, 49, 50, 80, 81, 82, 110 Othello, 258 values, 48 Shannon, Richard, 234 Talbot, Lavinia, 18 Shaw, George Bernard, 90 on Acton, 69 Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara, 37, 92 and Mary Gladstone, 63, 64, 261, 265 Shorthouse, J. Henry, 39, 40 on W.E. Gladstone, 1, 50, 56 John Inglesant, 39, 103 and Keble College group, 23

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Talbot, Lavinia (cont.) “Montenegro,” 234 and music, 39 Morte d’Arthur, 233 political involvement, 59, 263 “Northern Farmer, New Style,” 222 and women’s education, 68 “Ode on the Duke of Wellington,” 202, 213, 216, Talbot, Meriel, 18, 70, 129 217, 221, 238 Taylor, Charles, 61 “The Passing of Arthur,” 207 Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 132 The Princess, 222 telephone, 219, 220, 221 Queen Mary, 230 temperance, 21, 23, 47, 49, 93 “The Revenge,” 200 Temperley, David, 226 see also C. Hubert H. Parry Temperley, Nicholas, 226, 237 Tennyson, Charles, 223 Temple, Frederick, 27 Tennyson, Emily, Baroness Tennyson, 12, 190, 219, 223 Tennant, Laura, 19, 58, 59, 145, 173, 264 as amanuensis, 203, 204, 225 Tennant, Margot, 19, 144, 145, 173 musical compositions, 39, 203, 217–219, 224–227, 238 Tennyson, Alfred, ﬁrst Baron Tennyson, 35, 115, 270, 271 “Airy, Fairy Lillian,” 218 at Hawarden, 229 “Break, Break, Break,” 224–227, 239 and listeners, 202, 205–206, 214, 222, 229, 238 “Rise Britons Rise,” 218, 238–239 and music, 216–217, 223 “Sweet and Low,” 225 and onomatopœia, 201, 212–213, 226 “To Sleep,” 218 and the phonograph, 223, 227 Tennyson, Hallam, second Baron Tennyson, 12, 35, 62, extant recordings, 221–222, 236, 238 130, 217 and music, 219, 220–221 and Mary Gladstone, 78, 110, 200, 265 recitations by, 198, 271 and the phonograph, 227 chanting, 207, 236–238 and Alfred Tennyson, 35, 231 commentary, 205–206, 231 Tennyson family, 12 as organ-like, 207, 238, 239 Thalberg, Sigismund, 161 and time-keeping, 237, 238 Thayer, William Roscoe, 27, 250 recitation of, 233 theology, see social theology residences see also Keble College group Aldworth, 222 Thibaut, Anton Friedrich Justus, 132, 134, 164, 180 Farringford, 206, 207, 219, 223 Thirlwall, Connop, 111 in society, 62, 92, 120, 143, 171, 190, 200 Toole, J.L., 62, 120 works triangulated criticism, see criticism “Boädicea,” 200, 216, 221, 237, 238 Trollope, Frances, 127 “Break, Break, Break,” 221, 223–224 Turgenev, Ivan, 250 “Britons, Guard your Own,” 218, 238 Tyndall, John, 219 “The Brook,” 206 “The Bugle Song,” 220, 221 University of Cambridge “The Charge of the Heavy Brigade,” 222 Newnham College, 18, 68–69, 101 “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” 220, 221, 222 as liberal, 20, 21 “The Coming of Arthur,” 217 political inﬂuence of, 81 “The Eagle,” 228–229 Selwyn College, 20, 21, 184 The Golden Year, 201, 213 Trinity College, 237 Harold, 230–231, 232, 233, 234, 236, 240 see also Oxbridge Idylls of the King, 108 University of Oxford, 252, 263 In Memoriam A.H.H., 213, 223, 237, 239 Balliol College, 218, 263 “Kapiolani,” 221 Keble College, 18, 20, 21, 47, 263, 265 “Lancelot and Elaine,” 222, 223, 227–228 chapel, 264, 268 “Locksley Hall,” 213, 258 and music, 131, 159 “The Lotos-Eaters,” 204, 206, 207, 212 Lady Margaret Hall, 18, 68, 72 “The Maid of Astolat,” 203 Magdalen College chapel, 157 Maud, 44, 171, 200–201, 205, 206, 207, 213, 219, Somerville Hall, 72 222, 224, 229, 238 see also Oxbridge

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Varnhagen, Rahel Levin, 91, 97 welfare state, 2, 21, 95 Victoria, Queen of England, 1, 56, 74, 81, 84, 98, 123 White, Maude Valérie, 87 and music, 137 Whittingehame, Scotland, see Arthur Balfour violin, 132, 135 Wickham, Agnes, 16 see also Joseph Joachim; Wilma Norman Neruda Wickham, Edward, 16, 178, 183 Viotti, Giovanni Battista, 129 Wickham, Lucy Christian, 19, 69 Virgil, 149 Wilde, Oscar, 107 and Aesthetic Critic, 242 Wagner, Cosima, 247 works Wagner, Richard, 26, 132, 147, 244–245, 246 “The Critic as Artist,” 152, 154, 249 and passionate energy of, 83, 271 The Picture of Dorian Gray,83 and Conservatives, 83 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 71 and liberalism, 82, 85 women works composers, 87 Der fliegende Holländer, 83, 247 fallen, 15, 259 Götterdammerung, 82, 247 and liberalism, 11, 12, 45, 48, 58–60 Kaisermarsch, 247 New Woman, The, 195 Lohengrin, 40, 132, 133, 246 progress of, 96, 272 Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 247 and universities, 72, 272 Das Rheingold, 247 see also Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Tannhäuser, 84, 145, 190, 246, 247 Newnham College, Cambridge; Somerville Tristan und Isolde, 247 Hall, Oxford Die Walküre, 247 women’ssuffrage: see H.H. Asquith; Herbert Gladstone; Wagner Festival, 85, 244, 246–247, 250, 263, 268 Mary Gladstone; W.E. Gladstone Wagnerism, 83, 85 Women’s University Settlement, 16, 18 Wakefield, Mary, 87 Wordsworth, William, 23, 28 Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 194 Webb, Benjamin, 75 Zukunftsmusik, 245