The Blind Victorian
Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism
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- Editor: Lawrence Goldman
- Date Published: December 2003
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521892742
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When Henry Fawcett died in 1884 he was among the most famous men of his age. From a relatively humble background he had risen to become Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, a Liberal MP and a minister in Gladstone's second government. And he had achieved all this despite being blinded at the age of twenty-five in a shooting accident. Indeed, he was probably the first blind MP in British history. This book examines aspects of his life and career - his personal life, including his friendship with the critic and writer, Leslie Stephen, and his marriage to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the famous feminist; his intellectual contribution to Victorian culture as a friend and disciple of John Stuart Mill; his influential role as a populariser of economic thought from his position at Cambridge; his political outlook and campaigns as a radical Liberal who often opposed Gladstone, his party leader, for his timidity.
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- Date Published: December 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521892742
- length: 216 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.328kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Personal Life and Sensibility:
1. 'Manly Fellows': Fawcett, Stephen and the liberal temper Stefan Collini
2. Manliness, masculinity and the mid-Victorian temperament Boyd Hilton
3. Victorian feminists: Henry and Millicent Garrett Fawcett David Rubinstein
Part II. Economics:
4. Henry Fawcett: the plain man's political economist Phyllis Deane
5. The plain man's political economist: a discussion Donald Winch
6. Henry Fawcett and the labour question in mid-Victorian Britain Giacomo Beccattini
Part III. Politics:
7. Henry Fawcett and the Social Science Association: liberal politics, political economy and the working class in mid-Victorian Britain Lawrence Goldman
8. Fawcett as professional politician Christopher Harvie
Index.
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