G. A. Rawlyk

William Ewart Gladstone

History & Biography

“David Bebbington's William Ewart Gladstone provides not only a remarkably crafted, empathetic yet critical, biography of the great nineteenth-century British politician but also a marvelous historical overview of Victorian Britain. Bebbington has persuasively argued that Gladstone's High Church Anglican Christianity profoundly affected his political life and his evolving political ideology. This richly textured biography should be required reading for all those interested in the fascinating problem of how a variety of intense Christian beliefs actually impinged on nineteenth-century British politics.”