Nineteenth-Century Prose

William Cobbett (1762-1835) was variously a soldier, journalist, grammarian, agriculturalist, agitator, economist, ecologist, and finally, just prior to his death, an M.P. from Oldham in the first post-Reform Parliament. Unfortunately, there is no...

Any knowledgeable and successful Englishman at the end of the nineteenth century who read the weekly and daily press at his club or in the privacy of his home recognized the initials, "F.C.G." These three letters were all that Francis Carruthers Gould...

The study of prose these days inclines toward authors who are commonly thought to have produced works of enduring value. If it is unnecessary to say that such an approach is useful to the present, it is rather more important to observe that frequently...

William Gladstone has in one respect been well served by scholars. Enticed by his prodigious achievements and encouraged by an enormous paper residue, they have produced an amount and quality of scholarship unparalleled in nineteenth-century political...