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Mr Gladstone in his prime had a personality of titanic proportions, capable of moulding the pattern and context of the world within which he had his being. It is natural to search his origins and upbringing for clues to his almost superhuman strength and energy as well as to the the complexities of his private and political character. Gladstone’s family background is far more fully documented than is the case with many men who have become famous, but the influence of this background on his personal development and political attitudes remains in the last resort a matter of interpretation.
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John Brooke and Mary Sorensen, eds., The Prime Ministers’ Papers: W. E. Gladstone I: Autobiographica, H. M. S. O., 1971, p. 13
M. R. D. Foot, ed., The Gladstone Diaries, Oxford University Press, 1968, vol. I, pp. 495, 473. See also W. E. Gladstone, ‘The Evangelical Movement; its parentage, progress and issue’, Gleanings of Past Years, John Murray, 1879, vol. VII, pp. 201–41
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Feuchtwanger, E.J. (1989). Liverpool Underneath 1809–32. In: Gladstone. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19783-5_1
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