David Nicholls - The Lost Prime Minister a Life of Sir Charles Dilke

London, Hambledon Press, 1995. First edition. Cloth. A biography of the British politician Sir Charles Dilke, who would have been Prime Minster in 1885 were it not for a well-publicised divorce case. With monochrome photographs, and frontispiece of Charles Dilke. In 1885, Dilke was accused of seducing his sister-in-law's sister, as well as his own sister-in-law. After this, he was ruined. Other women claimed he had approached them for a liaison. Various lurid rumours circulated about his love-life, including that he had invited a maidservant to join himself and his lover in bed, and that he had introduced one or more of these to "every kind of French vice". For a time it seemed that he would be tried for perjury, although this did not eventuate. Dilke spent much of the remainder of his life and much of his fortune trying to exonerate himself, and this adds weight to the view that Virginia lied about the identity of her lover. In a green cloth binding with unclipped Brodart dustwrapper. Externally in lovely condition. Dustwrapper is very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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