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Dilke - A Victorian Tragedy (Paperback)
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Dilke - A Victorian Tragedy (Paperback)
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Sir Charles Dilke was born in 1843 and died in 1911. His career is
one of the mysteries and tragedies of nineteenth-century history.In
the summer of 1885 he was the youngest man in the outgoing cabinet
and Gladstone's most likely successor as leader of the Liberal
Party. But his great expectations were shattered when in July 1885
Donald Crawford, a Liberal candidate, began divorce proceedings
against his twenty-two-year-old wife, citing Dilke as
co-respondent. There were two hearings, during the second of which
Mrs Crawford made the most sensational allegations and in the end
Dilke lost. He maintained his innocence to his dying day and
despite his public disgrace there were many who believed him.First
published in 1958, "Dilke" is a story with a climax as exciting as
it is mysterious and which bears continuing relevance to the
private lives of public figures.
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