The Significance. It has been said, you cannot write of Disraeli without blowing upon Gladstone, nor of Gladstone without decrying Disraeli.

Disraeli became prime minister for the first time in 1868. Gladstone evicted him, serving from 1869-74. Then Disraeli evicted Gladstone, serving from 1874-80.

By way of sharpening the contrast, already glaring, between Gladstone and Disraeli, he pictures two extremes in Mary Anne Disraeli, loquacious, garish, flighty; and Catherine Gladstone ...