The Blind Victorian

Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism

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When Henry Fawcett died in 1884 he was among the most famous men of his age. From a relatively humble background he had risen to become Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, a Liberal MP and a minister in Gladstone's second government. And he had achieved all this despite being blinded at the age of twenty-five in a shooting accident. Indeed, he was probably the first blind MP in British history. This book examines aspects of his life and career - his personal life, including his friendship with the critic and writer, Leslie Stephen, and his marriage to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the famous feminist; his intellectual contribution to Victorian culture as a friend and disciple of John Stuart Mill; his influential role as a populariser of economic thought from his position at Cambridge; his political outlook and campaigns as a radical Liberal who often opposed Gladstone, his party leader, for his timidity.

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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Personal Life and Sensibility
G++Manly FellowsG++: Fawcett, Stephen and the liberal temper
Manliness, masculinity and the mid-Victorian temperament
Victorian feminists: Henry and Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Economics
Henry Fawcett: the plain manG++s political economist
The plain manG++s political economist: a discussion
Henry Fawcett and the labour question in mid-Victorian Britain
Politics
Henry Fawcett and the Social Science Association: liberal politics, political economy and the working class in mid-Victorian Britain
Fawcett as professional politician
Index
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