Rise of George Canning, The

Marshall, Dorothy

Verlag: Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1938

Beschreibung

BOOK: Previous Owner Markings; Repaired; Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. SUB-TITLE: The Study of a Political Apprenticeship. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY: Harold Temperley, LITT.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse, Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; I. Early Days; II. Political Perplexities; III. Political Apprenticeship; IV. Canning in Society; V. Office and the Anti-Jacobin; VI. Courtship and Marriage; VII. Resignation and Opposition; VIII. Pitt's Second Ministry; Index. EXCERPT: PREFACE This study of Canning as a young man is very largely based upon private papers hitherto unpublished and now in the possession of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harewood, who has very kindly given permission for me to use them for this purpose. For the years 1793-5 there is a very full journal which Canning wrote up every few days and sent in instalments to his uncle by marriage, the Rev. William Leigh. This, though presumably not quite so revealing as a private diary, gives a very full and unforced picture of his life from day to day. After 1800 his letters to his wife, which were absolutely unreserved and confidential, are particularly valuable for the light which they throw on his hopes and plans. The collection also contains a few letters to Lady Susan Ryder dealing with the period of Canning's courtship. All the quotations in the text, unless otherwise stated in the footnotes, come either from the journal or these letters. For the period before 1793 a series of letters written to his aunt, Hester Canning, and his cousin, Bessy Canning, though not so full as his later correspondence, help to fill in some gaps. These letters, which are now in the possession of Mrs. Western, who has most kindly allowed quotations to be made from them, are referred to in the footnotes as Western Letters. Additional information is also supplied by a collection of unprinted letters at the Public Record Office (G. & D. 29/8), written by Canning to Lord Granville Leveson Gower and not included in the volumes of his Private Correspondence edited by Castalia, Countess Granville in 1916. Printed material dealing with Canning is comparatively plentiful. The early chapters of Dr. Temperley's Life of Canning are particularly useful in giving the main facts of his early life, and provided the starting-point for this more detailed study of the young Canning. I have tried, as far as possible, to base this biography on letters which Canning either wrote or received rather than on what has been written about him . . . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 002529

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Titel: Rise of George Canning, The

Verlag: Longmans, Green and Co., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1938

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Auflage: First Edition.