H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley

Michael Brock, Eleanor Brock (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

722 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-872291-5 (ISBN)

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A series of letters between H. H. Asquith and Venetia Stanley, the young woman with whom he had fallen in love. These letters are not merely personal, they also document the years from 1912 to 1915, revealing state secrets, describing his colleagues in government, and charting Asquith's political career and downfall.

H. H. Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley in the spring of 1912. Over the next three years he wrote to her whenever he could not see her: sometimes three times a day, sometimes during a debate in the house of Commons, on occasion even during a Cabinet meeting.

He shared many political and military secrets with her and wrote freely of his colleagues in government, who included LLoyd George, Churchill, and Kitchener. The correspondence ended abruptly in May 1915 when Venetia told Asquith of her engagement to a junior Cabinet Minister, Edwin Montagu. The Prime Minister, who was at a crisis in his political fortunes, confessed himself utterly heart-broken.

This reissue of Asquith's letters to Venetia Stanley includes explanatory notes from Michael and Eleanor Brock, two of the leading authorities in the field. This volume documents a romance, and yet is vital reading for anyone interested in the history of World War I or in British politics of the time.

Michael Brock is a modern historian, educationalist, and Oxford college head; he was Vice-President of Wolfson College; Director of the School of Education at Exeter University; Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford; and Warden of St George's House, Windsor Castle; he is the author of The Great Reform Act, and co-editor, with Mark Curthoys, of the two nineteenth-century volumes in the History of the University of Oxford. With his wife, Eleanor Brock, a former schoolteacher, he has recently edited a new collection of Margot Asquith's Great War Diaries.

1. The Master of the Commons (September 1910-22 July 1914. Letters 1-102) ; 2. The Admired War Leader (24 July 1914-31 December 1914. Letters 103-243) ; 3. The London Hospital and the Dardanelles (January 1915-12 May 2014. Letter 244-425 and letters I-XXXVIII) ; Two Letters Discovered in 1984 ; 4. Epilogue ; Silvia Henley's Letters to her Husband ; Judy Gendel, by Patrick Leigh Fermor ; Appendices ; Family Trees ; Biographical Notes ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.7.2014
Zusatzinfo	30 black and white figures, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 216 mm
Gewicht	860 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-872291-5 / 0198722915
ISBN-13	978-0-19-872291-5 / 9780198722915
Zustand	Neuware