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Mrs Catherine Gladstone - 'A Woman Not Quite of Her Time' (Paperback)
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Catherine Glynne was born in 1812, in the same year as Charles
Dickens. An earl's daughter she married the son of a self-made
merchant, William Ewart Gladstone, who became Queen Victoria's
Prime Minister on four occasions. While the Queen and the PM
loathed each other, they both loved Catherine, Gladstone's wife.
After a long and indecisive courtship, Gladstone said of his new
wife that my Cathie forever twinkles. Society remarked that her
beauty showed a profound intelligence. Catherine loved being in the
main stream of action but disliked politicians, fashion and social
niceties. Unusual for the time Gladstone was present at the birth
of each of their eight children and Catherine insisted on feeding
them herself. Mrs Gladstone's primary concern was support of the
poor in particular those suffering from cholera, near-starving mill
girls and homeless orphans. She established the concept of free
convalescent homes and her common-sense influenced the Poor Laws.
To maintain her genius for charity she took every opportunity to
approach Gladstone's friends for financial support for her good
works. In return she found places for her husband's rescue' women
young girls forced into prostitution as a result of poverty. When
her brother's ironworks failed Catherine and her family faced
poverty. It was Gladstone's financial skills that saved the family
from bankruptcy. Catherine died on 14th June, 1900. Pertinent to
this biography is the letter the author wrote to the Church Times
about the reasons behind the riots in London and elsewhere in the
United Kingdom, in August 2011. The letter header "Mrs Gladstone!
thou shouldst be living at this hour" drew attention to a
personality who in her time confronted severe social need through
community action (the letter text is reproduced on the Press
website).
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