LEADER 04584nam 2200577 450 001 9910467943803321 005 20210903010209.0 010 $a1-4426-7397-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673977 035 $a(CKB)4940000000585664 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255056 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671433 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671433 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257143 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199199 035 $a(OCoLC)958558725 035 $a(DE-B1597)464400 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954655 035 $a(OCoLC)944178225 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673977 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000585664 100 $a20160915h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisraeli's disciple $ethe scandalous life of George Smythe /$fMary S. Millar 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (413 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 311 0 $a0-8020-9092-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tChronology 1818-75 --$tAbbreviations --$tPrologue: The Wild Ass's Skin --$t1. A Splendid Failure? --$t2. 1400-1817: The Strangford Inheritance --$t3. 1818-26: Cradled in Commotions --$t4. 1826-35: George Smythe's Schooldays --$t5. 1836-7: Herstmonceux and Cambridge --$t6. 1837-8: Faber --$t7. 1838-9: Pearls and Swine --$t8. 1840: Lady Tankerville --$t9. 1841: Heaven-Born Statesman or Devil-Born Orator --$t10. 1841:I Am a Very Zero --$t11. 1842: Young England --$t12. 1843: Worrying Peel - and Reading Casanov --$t13. 1844: Coningsby and Historic Fancies --$t14. 1844: The Pursuit of Psyche --$t15. 1845: The Double Game --$t16. 1846: Falling Upstairs - and Down --$t17. 1847: With a Tongue and a Pen of His Own --$t18. 1848-9: Very Like Assassination --$t19. 1850-2: Diplomatic Moves --$t20. 1852: Something about the Duke --$t21. 1853-5: The Stage-Box of My Soul --$t22. 1856-7: Bed-Ridden Lovelace --$tAfterwards --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOne of the most intriguing relationships in Victorian history is that between George Smythe (1818?1857), handsome aristocrat and iconoclast, and Benjamin Disraeli (1804?1881), society novelist, Jewish outsider, and future British prime minister. While Smythe's friendship was central to Disraeli's rise to political power in the 1840s and 1850s, little has been written about Smythe's life beyond a few paragraphs in biographies and histories of the period. Mary S. Millar redresses this omission with Disraeli's Disciple, the first ever biography of Smythe. Drawing from extensive original research, Millar details the full extent of Smythe's early brilliance as a writer and politician with the Young England splinter group that fostered Disraeli's political rise. Millar's research reveals how heavily Disraeli relied on Smythe and how closely Disraeli's fictional characters were based on him: his looks and idealism in Coningsby (1844), his duplicity in Tancred (1847), and his charm in Endymion (1880). Millar identifies Smythe?s incisive journalism for the first time, illustrating his fine grasp of European politics and the venom of his personal attacks. She also documents Smythe's numerous and often disreputable love affairs with remarkable partners: the French countess thirty years his senior, the Anglican priest who wrote him passionate poetry, the circus equestrienne he groomed for marriage to an Earl, and the Scottish heiress he married as he lay dying of tuberculosis. In addition to the portrait it paints of a fascinating man whose public life was as earnest and idealistic as his private life was shocking and titillating, Disraeli's Disciple also provides new insights into the politics of this formative stage in British history. It is a captivating and enthralling biography that will change the way we view Victorian England. 606 $aYoung England movement 606 $aPoliticians$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aNobility$zEngland$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aYoung England movement. 615 0$aPoliticians 615 0$aNobility 676 $a941.081092 700 $aMillar$b Mary S.$f1939-$01051358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467943803321 996 $aDisraeli's disciple$92481826 997 $aUNINA