The Lost Imperialist by Andrew Gailey
An eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.
The cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherentsHow pleasing and unexpected, then, to read about Lord Dufferin, in a scholarly, well-researched volume, elegantly written and published by John Murray, which in its ancient régime heyday issued many such tomes. Andrew Gailey is a fine historian * David Gilmour, Literary Review *
A scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters * Country Life *
A story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, skilfully unravelled by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious -- Piers Brendon * Independent *
Well equipped to convey Dufferin's importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the haut ton of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. He writes engagingly, a graceful turn of phrase leavened by the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist * Roy Foster, Carroll professor of Irish history at Hertford College, Oxford *
Brilliantly places the glamorous but forgotten Irish proconsul Lord Dufferin in a world of contemporary myth-making and celebrity politics * Irish Times *
A scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters * Country Life *
A story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, skilfully unravelled by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious -- Piers Brendon * Independent *
Well equipped to convey Dufferin's importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the haut ton of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. He writes engagingly, a graceful turn of phrase leavened by the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist * Roy Foster, Carroll professor of Irish history at Hertford College, Oxford *
Brilliantly places the glamorous but forgotten Irish proconsul Lord Dufferin in a world of contemporary myth-making and celebrity politics * Irish Times *
Andrew Gailey has taught history at Eton College since 1981 and was a housemaster from 1993 to 2006. Since then he has been elected Vice-Provost and a Fellow of the College. A graduate of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge, he is the author of numerous studies of Anglo-Irish relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and has a particular research interest in constructive unionism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781444792430 |
| ISBN 10 | 1444792431 |
| Title | The Lost Imperialist |
| Author | Andrew Gailey |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Year published | 2015-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Prizes | Winner of Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historial Biography 2016 (UK) |
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