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A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... learn. No good to tell him that if he wants to depict with con viction the inner circle of fashion in, say, the era of the Whigs or the Edwardians, he must not let the butler announce a viscount as Viscount Blank, and must not use too freely the courtesy ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2094 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

DOMESTIC SERVICE IN LITERATURE: A Subject that in Jane Austen's Day was Taken for Granted

... the pleasure of reviving public interest in Emily Eden's two novels [for Mathews and Marrot's Rescue Series]. Miss Eden (a Whig lady) was in the line of Jane Austen, and her first novel, The Semi-Attached Couple, though published in mid- Victorian days ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1558 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... more like grass. This Government with its plenary powers would not at first sight be chosen to stand as a parallel with the Whigs in the Wilderness all through Liver pool's long and sorry administration, which was kept so long in power by nothing but the ...

Published: Saturday 21 February 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2199 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

The SILVER JUBILEE

... paralysing divisions of the Whig Opposition could have kept the Tories' long and weak administrations in power for so many years. The mountain and other cliques, the disloyalties and the private vendettas, these kept the Whigs in the wilderness for twenty-three ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1608 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... more hopefully the Liberal Party (or is it a part of the party reading the.score from a new Programme for Britain, is. The Whigs and the Liberals since 1830 bequeathed a good deal of influence to our land and political history, and I think Lord Samuel ...

Published: Saturday 23 October 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1794 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

THE NOT-SO-GAY GAMBLERS: The Sorrows of Payne and Brummell

... piquet and ecarte in a quiet way, but not worth your attention. Hard and rugged times, my dear Payne And as these dominant Whigs*ihave abolished my place and its contingent bread, I am at present left to gnaw bones with the animals in the street. All up ...

Published: Saturday 11 December 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1686 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... economic revolt tions and come triumphantly thron.e- The men in power are every whit as on pomp and circumstance as were great Whig governing class before Reform Bill. The Old Stages 350,000,000 GALLONS MISSING-- THE DISMAL SCENE AT HURY RESERVOIR, IN BALDERSDALE ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1809 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

FIRST GUNS of the ELECTION BATTLE: Socialists, Conservatives, and Liberals Proclaim their Faiths

... man and not man for the says the Liberal. John Pym (1584-1643) is claim 1 the founder of the Liberal Party.4 The orilTn of Whig (from the Gaelic meaning to jogS w changed to Liberal until the middle of the nineteen^ century. Very little is said by the ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1883 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... members or scrap the whole early- Victorian ideal of club life S| c service, slow and dignified meals, all tne advantages of a Whig country without its drawbacks in the re8 of women and the incubus of nurseries. In short, the club could carry on for while ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2078 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs