person
William Gladstone
Gladstone
also: Гладстон
British Liberal statesman, four-time Prime Minister; a recurring stock figure in the calendar's mock foreign-affairs items, paired repeatedly with the fictional "king of the Ashanti."
Reading notes
- The Name-Day Party §19 Gladstones
William Gladstone (1809-1898), the British Liberal statesman; Pyotr Dmitrich sneers at two provincial officials as 'infallible Gladstones,' using the great Liberal's name as a mock-grand stand-in for local worthies who consider themselves progressive.
- Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire §26 Gladstone
British Liberal statesman and four-time prime minister; like Bismarck, a stock name from the foreign pages, used to mock Osip's pretensions to political sophistication.
- The Alarm Clock's Calendar §45 Gladstone
William Gladstone, the British Liberal statesman and four-time Prime Minister; the calendar recurringly pairs him in absurd diplomatic scenes with an invented "king of the Ashanti."