... g party label than Liberalism 130 years ago. And yet for twenty years of the crassest Tory administration in history, the Whigs and Liberals remained in the Wilderness, quarrelling and divided. And since 1812, with two or three brief interludes in which ...

... Aristocratic London, in that age of high politics, had its definably political strongholds Hanover Square was the focus of a Whig neighbourhood, Cavendish Square of a Tory. The comparative failure of Cavendish Square in view of its projector's first aspiration ...

... stronger with Creevey, who was proud of a con nection with the legs. His mother's sister, Charlotte, was married to a well-known Whig host of that day, Colonel Hughes of Kinmel, afterwards Lord Dinorben. Mrs. Payne's family originally consisted of five children ...

... 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 ...

... convenience. Irretrievably selfish, they were cast-iron bachelors. In wealth, and sometimes by birth, they were the equals of the Whig or Tory noblemen and gentlemen, whose equals and superiors the Mytton breed assuredly were in sport but it is impossible not ...

... 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 ...