Editing William Ewart Gladstone (section)

== Further reading ==
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===Biographies===
[[File:Opper-Bismarck-Gladstone-Puck_Feb_20_1895.jpg|thumb|300px|Caricature by [[Frederick Burr Opper|Opper]] 1895 of Germany's Bismarck & Britain's Gladstone as performers on the political stage]]

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* Bebbington, D.W. ''William Ewart Gladstone'' (1993).
* Biagini, Eugenio F. ''Gladstone'' (2000).
* Brand, Eric. ''William Gladstone'' (1986) {{ISBN|0877545286}}.
* Feuchtwanger, E.J. ''Gladstone'' (1975). 272 pp.
* Feuchtwanger, E.J. "Gladstone and the Rise and Fall of Victorian Liberalism" ''History Review'' (Dec 1996) v. 26 [https://www.questia.com/article/1G1-20206464/gladstone-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-victorian-liberalism online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924174618/https://www.questia.com/article/1G1-20206464/gladstone-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-victorian-liberalism |date=24 September 2019}}; [https://archive.org/details/gladstone00feuc also online]
* Jagger, Peter J., ed. ''Gladstone'' (2007), 256 pp.
* [[Jenkins, Roy]]. ''Gladstone: A Biography'' (2002)
* [[Philip Magnus (historian)|Magnus, Philip]] ''[https://archive.org/details/gladstoneabiogra010087mbp Gladstone: A biography]'' (1954) London, John Murray.
* Matthew, H.C.G. "Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–1898)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' (2004; [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10787 online edition, May 2006.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430160505/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10787 |date=30 April 2013}}
* Matthew, H.C.G. ''Gladstone, 1809–1874'' (1988); ''Gladstone, 1875–1898'' (1995) [https://www.questia.com/library/3244728/gladstone-1809-1874 online complete] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628193107/https://www.questia.com/library/3244728/gladstone-1809-1874 |date=28 June 2020}}
** Matthew, ''Gladstone: 1809–1898'' (1997) is an unabridged one-volume version. [https://archive.org/details/gladstone180918700matt_0 online]
* {{cite book |last= Morley |first= John  |author-link= John Morley|year= 1903 |title= The Life of William Ewart Gladstone |url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176101 |place= London & New York |publisher= Macmillan and CO. Limited and The Macmillan Company |via= [[Internet Archive]]}} [https://archive.org/details/a595216101morluoft volume I]; [https://archive.org/details/a595216102morluoft volume II], [https://archive.org/details/a595216102morluoft volume III].
* Partridge, M. ''Gladstone'' (2003)
* {{cite book |editor=Reid, Sir Wemyss |title=The Life of William Ewart Gladstone |place=London, Paris, New York, Melbourne |publisher=Cassell and Company. Limited |year=1899 |url=https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.99884/2015.99884.The-Life-Of-William-Ewart-Gladstone#page/n7/mode/2up |access-date=13 October 2017}}.
* {{cite book |last=Russell |first=George W.E |authorlink=George W. E. Russell |title=The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone |year=1891 |place=London |publisher=Sampson, Low, Marston & Company |url=https://archive.org/details/righthonourable02russgoog |access-date=13 October 2017 |via=Internet Archive}}.
* Russell, Michael. ''Gladstone: A Bicentenary Portrait'' (2009). {{ISBN|978-0859553179}}
* [[Richard Shannon (historian)|Shannon, Richard.]] ''Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor, 1809–1865'' (1985), {{ISBN|0807815918}}; ''Gladstone: Heroic Minister, 1865–1898'' (1999), {{ISBN|0807824860}}, a scholarly biography [https://archive.org/details/gladstone01shan vol 1 online]
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Shut |first=M.L. |title=Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–1898) |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |year=2008 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|Sage]] |isbn=978-1412965804 |pages=206–207 |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n123 |access-date=25 November 2015 |archive-date=30 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930070314/https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |url-status=live}}

===Special studies===
* Aldous, Richard. ''The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli'' (2007).
* Barker, Michael. ''Gladstone and Radicalism. The Reconstruction of Liberal Policy in Britain. 1885–1894'' (The Harvester Press, 1975).
* Beales, Derek. ''From Castlereagh to Gladstone, 1815–1885'' (1969), survey of political history [https://archive.org/details/fromcastlereaght00beal online]
* Bebbington, D.W. ''The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics'' (2004).
* Bebbington, David and Roger Swift (eds.), ''Gladstone Centenary Essays'' (Liverpool University Press, 2000).
* Biagini, E.F.  ''Liberty, Retrenchment and Reform. Popular Liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860–1880'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
* Biagini, Eugenio.  and Alastair Reid (eds.), ''Currents of Radicalism. Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850–1914'' (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
* Boyce, D. George and Alan O'Day, eds. ''Gladstone and Ireland: Politics, Religion, and Nationality in the Victorian Age'' (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011), 307 pp.
* Bright, J. Franck. ''A History Of England. Period 4: Growth Of Democracy: Victoria 1837–1880'' (1902)[https://books.google.com/books?id=9CJAAQAAMAAJ  online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305090418/https://books.google.com/books?id=9CJAAQAAMAAJ |date=5 March 2017}} 608pp; highly detailed older political narrative
** ''A History of England: Period V. Imperial Reaction, Victoria, 1880‒1901'' (1904) [https://archive.org/details/historyofengland05brig/page/n5 online]
* Butler, P. ''Gladstone, church, state, and Tractarianism: a study of his religious ideas and attitudes, 1809–1859'' (1982).
* Dewey, Clive. "Celtic Agrarian Legislation and the Celtic Revival: Historicist Implications of Gladstone's Irish and Scottish Land Acts 1870–1886." ''Past & Present'', no. 64, (1974), pp.&nbsp;30–70, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/650316 online].
* Gopal, S. "Gladstone and the Italian Question." ''History'' 41#141 (1956): 113–121. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24402911 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329123913/http://www.jstor.org/stable/24402911 |date=29 March 2017}}
* [[Guedalla, Philip]]. ''Queen and Mr. Gladstone'' (2 vols, 1933) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820012831/http://library.du.ac.in/xmlui/handle/1/3938 online edition]
* Hirst, F.W. ''Gladstone as Financier and Economist'' (1931).
* Hirst, F.W.  ''In the Golden Days'' (Frederick Muller, 1947).

* Huzzey, Richard. "Gladstone and the Suppression of the Slave Trade." in ''William Gladstone'' (Routledge, 2016) pp, 253-266.
* Isba, Anne. ''Gladstone and Women'' (2006), London: Hambledon Continuum, {{ISBN|1852854715}}.
* [[John Lawrence Hammond|Hammond, J.L.]] ''Gladstone and the Irish nation'' (1938) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505221 online edition.]
* Jenkins, T.A. ''Gladstone, whiggery and the liberal party, 1874–1886'' (1988).
* Keith A. P. Sandiford. "W. E. Gladstone and Liberal-Nationalist Movements." ''Albion'' 13#1 (1981), pp.&nbsp;27–42, [https://doi.org/10.2307/4049112 online].
* Langer, William L. ''The Diplomacy of Imperialism: 1890–1902'' (2nd ed. 1950), a standard diplomatic history of Europe
* Loughlin, J. ''Gladstone, home rule and the Ulster question, 1882–1893'' (1986). [https://archive.org/details/gladstonehomerul00loug online]
* Machin, G. I. T.  "Gladstone and Nonconformity in the 1860s: The Formation of an Alliance." ''Historical Journal'' 17, no. 2 (1974): 347–364. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2638302 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809013014/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2638302 |date=9 August 2020}}.
*  O'Day, Alan. "Gladstone and Irish Nationalism: Achievement and Reputation." in ''Gladstone Centenary Essays,'' edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift, (Liverpool University Press, 2000), pp.&nbsp;163–183, [https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vjbqc.16 online].
* Parry, J. P. ''Democracy and religion: Gladstone and the liberal party, 1867–1875'' (1986).

* Powell, John. "William Gladstone and the Question of Slavery, 1832–33," ''Journal of Liberal History'' #120 (Autumn 2023) pp.8-31, 60. [https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/120-Powell-Gladstone-Slavery-3.pdf online]
* Quinault, Roland, et al. eds ''William Gladstone: New Studies and Perspectives'' (2012).
* Quinault, Roland. "Chamberlain and Gladstone: An Overview of Their Relationship." in ''Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon'' ed. by I. Cawood, C. Upton, (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016). 97–115.
* Quinault, Roland. "Gladstone and slavery." ''The Historical Journal'' 52.2 (2009): 363–383. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X0900750X Gladstone and Slavery]
* Schreuder, D. M. ''Gladstone and Kruger: Liberal government and colonial 'home rule', 1880–85'' (1969).
* Schreuder, D. M. "Gladstone and Italian unification, 1848–70: the making of a Liberal?", ''The English historical review'', (1970) vol. 85 (n. 336), pp.&nbsp;475–501 . [https://www.jstor.org/stable/563192 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329123027/http://www.jstor.org/stable/563192 |date=29 March 2017}}
* Schumpeter, Joseph A.  ''History of Economic Analysis'' (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1954).
* Seton-Watson, R.W. ''Disraeli, Gladstone and the eastern question: a study in diplomacy and party politics'' (1935).
* Shannon, Richard. ''The crisis of imperialism, 1865–1915'' (1976), pp.&nbsp;76–100, 142–198.
* Shannon, Richard. ''Gladstone and the Bulgarian agitation, 1876'' (1975) [https://archive.org/details/gladstonebulgari0000shan online]
* Taylor, Michael. "The British West India interest and its allies, 1823–1833." ''English Historical Review'' 133.565 (2018): 1478–1511. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey336 The British West India Interest and Its Allies, 1823–1833*], focus on slavery
* Vincent, J. ''Gladstone and Ireland'' (1978).
* Vincent, J. ''The Formation of the Liberal Party, 1857–1868'' (1966) [https://archive.org/details/formationofbriti0000vinc online].

===Midlothian campaign===
* Blair, Kirstie. "The People's William and the People's Poets: William Gladstone and the Midlothian Campaign." ''The People's Voice'' (2018) [https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Blair.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325113306/https://thepeoplesvoice.glasgow.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Blair.pdf |date=25 March 2020}}.
* Brooks, David. "Gladstone and Midlothian: The Background to the First Campaign," ''Scottish Historical Review'' (1985) 64#1 pp 42–67.
* Fitzsimons, M. A. "Midlothian: the Triumph and Frustration of the British Liberal Party," ''Review of Politics'' (1960) 22#2 pp 187–201. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1405317 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309053829/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1405317 |date=9 March 2021}}
* Kelley, Robert. "Midlothian: A Study In Politics and Ideas," ''Victorian Studies'' (1960) 4#2 pp 119–140. 
* Matthew, H. C. G ''Gladstone: 1809–1898'' (1997) pp 293–313
* Whitehead, Cameron Ean Alfred. "The Bulgarian Horrors: culture and the international history of the Great Eastern Crisis, 1876–1878" (PhD. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2014) [https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0167317/1 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227181653/https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0167317/1 |date=27 February 2020}}
* Yildizeli, Fahriye Begum. "W.E. Gladstone and British Policy Towards the Ottoman Empire." (PhD dissertation, University of Exeter, 2016) [https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/25455/YildizeliF.pdf?sequence=1 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616095721/https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/25455/YildizeliF.pdf?sequence=1 |date=16 June 2020}}.

===Historiography===
* St. John, Ian. ''The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli'' (Anthem Press, 2016) 402 pp [https://books.google.com/books?id=ybo1DgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 excerpt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226090839/https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ybo1DgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&ots=IcL5VXce3k&sig=WzQebEyOba7DeJ2n6qdfICzxOwk |date=26 December 2019}}

===Primary sources===
* Gladstone, W.E. ''Midlothian Speeches. 1879'' (Leicester University Press, 1971).
* Gladstone, William E. ''Midlothian Speeches 1884'' with an Introduction by M. R. D. Foot, (New York: Humanities Press, 1971) [https://archive.org/details/thirdmidlothianc00glad/page/n2/mode/2up online]
* Guedalla, Philip, ed. ''Gladstone and Palmerston: Being the Correspondence of Lord Palmerston with Mr. Gladstone, 1851–1865'' (1928)
* Guedalla, Philip, ed. ''Queen And Mr. Gladstone'' (1933) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.51993 online]
* Lord Kilbracken, ''Reminiscences of Lord Kilbracken'' (Macmillan, 1931).
* {{cite book |last=Russell |first=G.W.E. |title=One Look Back |publisher=Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., LTD |year=1911 |place=London |url=https://archive.org/details/onelookback00russuoft |access-date=13 October 2017 |via=Internet Archive}}.
* {{cite book |last=Tollemache |first=Lionel A. |title=Talks with Mr. Gladstone |place=London |publisher=Edward Arnold |year=1898 |url=https://archive.org/details/a583231400tolluoft |edition=1 |access-date=13 October 2017 |via=Internet Archive}}.
* Matthew, H.C.G. and M.R.D. Foot, eds. ''Gladstone Diaries. With Cabinet Minutes & Prime-Ministerial Correspondence'' (13 vol; vol 14 is the index; 1968–1994); includes diaries, important selections from cabinet minutes and key political correspondence. [https://www.questia.com/library/82041640/the-gladstone-diaries online, vol 1, 4, 6, 7, and 11–14] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107025208/https://www.questia.com/library/82041640/the-gladstone-diaries |date=7 November 2017}}; vol 14, pp.&nbsp;1–284 includes brief identification of the 20,000+ people mentioned by Gladstone.
* Partridge, Michael,  and Richard Gaunt, eds. ''Lives of Victorian Political Figures Part 1: Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone'' (4 vol. Pickering & Chatto. 2006) reprints 27 original pamphlets on Gladstone.
* Ramm, Agatha, ed. ''The Political Correspondence of Gladstone and Lord Granville 1876–1886.'' (2 vol Clarendon, 1962) [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%27%27The%20Political%20Correspondence%20of%20Gladstone%20and%20Lord%20Granville%201876-1886.%27%27 online]
* Temperley, Harold and L.M. Penson, eds. ''Foundations of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902)'' (1938), primary sources [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.2629 online]
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