Charles Stewart Parnell: His Love Story and Political Life

On June 24th, 1891, Mr. Parnell drove over to Steyning to see that all the arrangements for our marriage at the registrar's office there on the next day were complete. Mr. Edwar...

My Queenie must take great care of herself, and must be sure to have at least one doctor in February. It will never do to let it trust to chance.

"_Love is not a flower that grows on the dull earth; Springs by the calendar; must wait for the sun. * * * * * * * E'en while you look the peerless flower is up Consummate in th...

Negotiations concerning the Crimes Bill were broken off, but before the end of June, 1882, I was once more acting as envoy to Gladstone. The following is a characteristic memora...

I had long since had a high paling put round my garden to screen it from the inquisitive eyes of persons who had, until this was done, the impertinence to lean over the short st...

One morning in 1882 I saw in the morning papers a cable message announcing the death of Miss Fanny Parnell. Mr. Parnell was at my house at the time, but asleep. After an all-nig...

In November, 1890, Parnell was served with a copy of the petition in the divorce case, O'Shea _v._ O'Shea and Parnell, by Wontner at Messrs. Lewis and Lewis's. I was served with...

Through the whole of 1880 Parnell was determinedly organizing the Land League throughout Ireland, and during the winter, doubtless encouraged by the enormous distress that preva...

Whenever I went to town, or elsewhere, I always returned at night to see that my children were all right and to be ready to go to my aunt as usual every morning. One day, on my...

In May, 1886, I took my children to the Queen's Hotel, Eastbourne, for a change, and, after a few days spent in looking for lodgings, I settled them in St. John's Road. Parnell...

Parnell, in accordance with his "parole," returned to Kilmainham at the end of the term of leave and immediately formulated the conditions of the arrangement it was proposed to...

When I first met Mr. Parnell in 1880 he was unusually tall and very thin. His features were delicate with that pallid pearly tint of skin that was always peculiarly his. The sha...

During his leisure moments at Eltham Mr. Parnell took up the study of astronomy with the vigour that always characterized him when he was interested in a subject. He had picked...

Mr. Forster made his notorious attack upon Mr. Parnell in February, 1883, accusing him of encouraging and conniving at murder, outrage, and treachery. On his return home Parnell...

When we had been in Spain for nearly a year, there was some dispute about the business arrangements of Willie's partnership in his uncle's bank, and Willie withdrew altogether f...

In the early summer of 1881 my aunt had one of her old friends to stay with her, and I seized the opportunity of freedom to take my children to Brighton for a month, after settl...

My aunt appeared to me to be failing in health a good deal at the beginning of 1888, and, though she sometimes seemed to be stronger, and chatted with all her old interest in th...

"_D'un coeur qui t'aime, Mon Dieu, qui peut troubler la tranquille paix? Il cherche, en tout, ta volunté suprème, Et ne se cherche jamais. Sur la terre, dans le ciel même, Est-i...

On Parnell's release from Kilmainham he returned to me at Eltham, and on May 6, 1882, went to Weymouth to welcome Michael Davitt, who came out of Portland prison on that day. He...

Willie and The O'Gorman Mahon had been returned at the General Election, and many and varied were the stories The O'Gorman Mahon told me subsequently of their amusing experience...

In 1885 I had a new room built on to my house at Eltham, adjoining my sitting-room and leading into the greenhouse, and thence to the garden. Parnell and I took the greatest int...

I remember looking at Anna consideringly when I was told this was to be, for, as children do, I had hitherto merely regarded Anna as a sister too "grown-up" to play with on equa...

In December a vacancy occurred in Kilkenny, and, on December 9th, my King started for Ireland, and stayed with Dr. Kenny for the night in Dublin. Of the great meeting in the Rot...

"_Fair shine the day on the house with open door; Birds come and cry there and twitter in the chimney, But I go for ever and come again no more._" --STEVENSON.

Willie was away more than ever after this, and I became so bored and lonely that I told him that I must join him in London if he meant to be there so much. He then proposed to g...

Forster's Coercion Bill was introduced on January 24th, 1881, and on the 25th Mr. Gladstone moved that it should have precedence of all other business before the House. Mr. Parn...

Once when Parnell had to go to Ireland by the morning mail, after a late sitting of the House, I went up to the St. Pancras Hotel, where he had a room that night, and made the w...

Before forming his Cabinet Mr. Gladstone enunciated the necessity for an examination whether it was practicable to establish a legislative body to sit in Dublin, and to deal wit...

"_I loved those hapless ones--the Irish Poor-- All my life long. Little did I for them in outward deed, And yet be unto them of praise the meed For the stiff fight I urged 'gain...

"_Go forth; and if it be o'er stoney way Old Joy can lend what newer grief must borrow, And it was sweet, and that was yesterday. And sweet is sweet, though purchased with sorro...

I loved the winter evenings at Rivenhall when my brothers were not at home. My father used to sit by the fire reading his _Times_, with his great white cat on his knee, while I...