Lives of Victorian Political Figures, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by Their Contemporaries (Innbundet (stive permer))

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 was a highly influential liberal thinker. He suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of twenty, having been pushed by his father to work hard from a young age, even to the point of being kept apart from other children. An exponent of utilitarianism, he advocated moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state. 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 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.

Volume 1: John Stuart Mill Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818; Thomas Moore, 'Ode to the Sublime Porte', The Times, 3 November 1826; [James Lorimer], 'Mr Mill on Representative Government' in North British Review (1861); W D Christie, 'Mr John Stuart Mill for Westminster' in Macmillan's Magazine, (1865); George Fitzhugh, 'John Stuart Mill on Political Economy', DeBow's Review, (1867); William White, Illustrated Times, 10 and 24 February 1866, from The Inner Life of the House of Commons; [Anon], 'Mr Mill's Speech on Capital Punishment' in Westminster Review, (1869); Lord Dufferin, Mr. Mill's Plan for the Pacification of Ireland Examined; Frances Power Cobbe, 'The Subjection of Women' in Theological Review: A Journal of Religious Thought and Life, (1869); [Margaret Oliphant], 'Mill on the Subjection of Women' in Edinburgh Review, (1869); [Bonamy Price], 'Mr Mill on Land', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, (1871); [Abraham Hayward], 'John Stuart Mill', The Times, 10 May 1873; 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, (1873); [Herbert Cowell], 'John Stuart Mill: An Autobiography' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, (1874); [Henry Reeve], 'Autobiography of John Stuart Mill', Edinburgh Review, (1874); Charles W Dilke, 'John Stuart Mill, 1869-1873', Cosmopolis, (1897); Frederic Harrison, 'John Stuart Mill', Nineteenth Century, (1896); George Jacob Holyoake, Bygones worth Remembering; Thomas Hardy, 'A Glimpse of John Stuart Mill', The Times, 21 May 1906 Volume 2: Thomas Hill Green and William Morris R S Rait (ed.), 'Oxford', Memorials of Albert Venn Dicey, Being Chiefly Letters and Diaries; Mark Pattison, 'Philosophy at Oxford', Mind (1877); H H Asquith, 'Some Aspects of the Victorian Age', The Romanes Lecture 1918; Lewis R Farnell, An Oxonian Looks Back; 'Professor Green on Temperance,' Alliance News, April 12, 1879; 'Morality by Act of Parliament,' Alliance News, April 19, 1879; 'Special Conference at Oxford,' Alliance News, May 1, 1880; 'The Oxford Election,' Alliance News, May 15, 1880; 'The Late Professor Green' and 'Memorial to Professor Green,' Alliance News, May 27, 1882; William Cunningham, from 'The Sense of Citizenship' and 'Personal Character', The Common Weal, Six Lectures in Political Philosophy; Percy Alden, 'Arnold Toynbee,' Mansfield House Magazine (1894); Richard Burdon Haldane, 'The New Liberalism,' Progressive Review (1896); 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 (August, 1889); G F Barbour, 'Green and Sidgwick on the Community of the Good,' The Philosophical Review, (March, 1908); Letter of Arthur Boutwood to 2d Viscount Halifax, 19 January 1910; 'The Late Professor Green,' Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette, 1 April 1882; 'Death of Professor T H Green,' Oxford Chronicle, 1 April 1882; 'The Late Professor Green,' Oxford Times, 1 April 1882; 'Professor Thomas Hill Green,' Church of England Temperance Chronicle, 1 April 1882; 'The Late Professor Green' and 'Death of Professor T. H. Green,' Alliance News, 1 April 1882; C A Fyffe, 'The Late Professor T H Green,' The Times, 28 March 1882; 'Sermon by the President of Trinity,' Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate Journal, 20 April 1882; James Bryce, 'Professor T H Green, 'In Memoriam,' Contemporary Review, (May, 1882); John William Mackail, The Parting of the Ways, an address; Emma Lazarus, 'A Day in Surrey with William Morris,' The Century, (July, 1886); Frederic W. H. Myers, 'Modern Poets and the Meaning of Life,' Nineteenth Century, (January, 1893); Oscar L Triggs, 'The Socialistic Thread in the Life and Works of William Morris,' Poet-Lore (1893); John William Mackail, William Morris; [Anon.], 'Nephelococcygia-Lez-Hammersmith,' Saturday Review (January 10, 1885); Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams, Being Autobiographical Notes; Edward Carpenter, 'The Enchanted Thicket: An Appeal to the "Well-to-do"' in England's Ideal and Other Essays; [Police reports], The Times, September 22, 1885; Edward Aveling, 'Police Tyranny. To The Editor of The Times,' The Times, September 22, 1885; Eduard Bernstein, My Years of Exile: Reminiscences of a Socialist, trans Bernard Miall; Edward Carpenter, 'William Morris,' Freedom, A Journal of Anarchist Communism, (December, 1896); Sam Mainwaring, 'Reminiscences of William Morris, By A Working Colleague,' Freedom, (December, 1896); Walter Crane, [tribute to Morris], Freedom, (November, 1896); Peter Kropotkin, [tribute to Morris], Freedom, (November, 1896); [Anon.], 'William Morris, Poet and Artist,' Quarterly Review, (July-October, 1899); R B Cunninghame Graham, 'With the North-West Wind', Saturday Review, (October 10, 1896); Samuel G Hobson, Pilgrim to the Left, Memoirs of a Modern Revolutionist; J Bruce Glasier, The Meaning of Socialism, 2d edn Volume 3: Walter Bagehot R H Hutton, "Walter Bagehot" Fortnightly Review (October 1877); W R Greg in The Economist (October 6, 1855); A V Dicey, "Bagheot's Biographical Studies" The Nation (June 16, 1881); John Arbuckle "Journalism as Exemplified by Mr Bagehot" Scribners Monthly (October 1879); G Walker, "Walter Bagehot" The Nation (June 26, 1879); Woodrow Wilson, "A Literary Politician" Atlantic Monthly (1895) and "A Wit and A Seer" Atlantic Monthly (1898); John Morley, Recollections; M E Grant Duff, 'Walter Bagehot: His Life and Works', in Our of the Past: Some Biographical Essays; Bonamy Price "Lombard Street" Fraser's Magazine (October 1873); William Newmarch, "Lombard Street" Quarterly Review (January 1874); Robert Giffen, "Bagehot as an Economist" Fortnightly Review (April 1880); G Barnett Smith, "Walter Bagehot" Frasier's Magazine (March 1879); R E Welby, 1st Baron Welby "Letter to the Economist", The Economist (November 20, 1909); "Letter to Mrs Russell Barrington", October 5, 1912; Memorandum [undated]; Bridgewater Mercury June 6 and 13, 1866; University College Daily News, February 4, 1867; University of London Election Daily News, January 31, 1868; Representation of London University Daily News, February 11, 1868; "Science of Bribery" Reynolds Newspaper, October 24, 1869; Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of corrupt practices at the last election and at previous elections of members to sit in Parliament for the Borough of Bridgewater (1870); The Election Commissioners Jackson's Oxford Journal, October 23, 1869; "Report of the Bridgewater Election Commissioners" Pall Mall Gazette, February 12, 1870; R H Hutton, obituary, Spectator (March 31, 1877); E J D Wilson, obituary, Examiner (March 31, 1877); R H Inglis Palgrave, obituary, Banker's Magazine (May 1877); Langport Herald, obituary, (March 31, 1877); A V Dicey, "Physics and Politics" The Nation (April 3, 1873); A V Dicey, "Walter Bagehot" The Nation (June 26, 1879); James Bryce, "Address of March 24, 1916"; "Letter to R H Hutton", October 2, 1877; "Letter to Eliza Bagehot", May 10, 1881; "Letter to Mrs Russell Barrington", 1914; Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, Speech at University College London, May 11, 1877; William Gladstone, "Letters to Eliza Bagehot", June 12, 1877, February 6, 1880 and April 25, 1881