Disraeli: A Personal History. Christopher Hibbert

      

      Disraeli

      A Personal History

      Christopher Hibbert

      

       For John Rae with affection

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

PART ONE 1804–46

1 BOYHOOD

2 A YOUNG MAN OF HIGH FASHION

3 A CONTINENTAL HOLIDAY

4 MENTAL BREAKDOWN

5 TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES

6 ‘THE JEW D’ESPRIT’

7 THE CANDIDATE

8 AFFAIRS

9 THE REFORMING TORY

10 DEBTS AND DUNS

       11 THE MEMBER FOR MAIDSTONE

       12 ‘MOST BRILLIANT AND TRIUMPHANT SPEECHES’

       13 ‘A PRETTY LITTLE WOMAN, A FLIRT AND A RATTLE’

       14 A TROUBLED COURTSHIP

       15 A HAPPY MARRIAGE

       16 THE BRILLIANT ORATOR

       17 YOUNG ENGLAND

       18 CONINGSBY AND SYBIL

       19 DAMNING ATTACKS

       20 TANCRED

       PART TWO 1846–81

       21 THE JOCKEY AND THE JEW

       22 THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN

       23 THE CHANCELLOR

       24 MARITAL DIFFICULTIES

       25 BALLS AND BANQUETS

       26 VISITS AND VISITORS

       27 FÊTES AND FOLLIES

       28 DISTINGUISHED PERSONS AND PRIVATE SECRETARIES

       29 THE ‘POTENT WIZARD’

       30 A GUEST AT BALMORAL AND OSBORNE

       31 MINISTER IN ATTENDANCE

       32 THE WIDOWER

       33 FEMALE FRIENDS

       34 PRIME MINISTER AGAIN

       35 TROUBLES AT COURT

       36 EARL OF BEACONSFIELD AND VISCOUNT HUGHENDEN OF HUGHENDEN

       37 BERLIN

       38 THE ‘GUARDIAN ANGEL’

       39 THE LAST ACT

       40 ‘A WISE AND WORLDLY MAN’

       REFERENCES

       SOURCES

       INDEX

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       By the same author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

PART ONE 1804–46

       1 BOYHOOD

      ‘He had a taste, not uncommon among schoolboys, for little acts of bargaining and merchandise.’

      

      IN CONVERSATION WITH HIS FRIEND, Lord Barrington, Benjamin Disraeli once observed, ‘I was born in a set of chambers in the Adelphi

      – I may say in a library, for all my father’s