Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley (1799-1869), later Lord Stanley and the 14th earl of Derby, was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times and remains the longest serving party leader in modern British politics. A complex, astute and influential figure, he dominated the political scene during the mid-nineteenth century. Lisa A. Francavilla is a historian of family, gender, and society, and senior managing editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, International Center for Jefferson Studies. Caroline Derby is a historian, curator, and storyteller. Born a Neville, she married a Stanley and grew up on the Audley End estate before studying history and history of art at London University and then working for nearly a decade in all the royal palaces as exhibitions assistant to the surveyor of The Queen's paintings of the Royal Collection. She married the 19th earl of Derby in 1995 and they have three children. She is convinced that education and knowledge of history have the power to change lives. Professor Andrew O'Shaughnessy is professor of history at the University of Virginia and a noted scholar on the American Revolution. He is a former Saunders director of the Robert H. Smith Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, vice president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and visiting international fellow at the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. He is currently visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. Professor Jeanie Grant Moore received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and her doctorate from the University of California, Riverside. She is professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin and is recently retired from the University of San Diego. She has published articles based on British and European literature from the medieval period through the nineteenth century. Her teaching and publications reflect her interest in the way that history and literature are inextricably intertwined, and her current research focuses on the connections between Charles Dickens and the 14th earl of Derby. She lives in San Diego with her husband and family.
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Preface by Caroline Derby; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Editorial Statement by Lisa A. Francavilla; Maps and Chronology; Introduction by Andrew O'Shaughnessy and Jeanie Grant Moore; Stanley's Opening Remarks and Arrival at New York 21 July to 26 August 1824; New York to Canada 26 August to 13 September 1824; Montreal & Quebec, with Stanley's Thoughts on Canada 13 September to 3 October 1824; New England Region and Philadelphia 3 October to 8 November 1824; Travels Westward 8 November to 13 December 1824; By Rivers to New Orleans 13 December 1824 to 3 January 1825; Across the South to Charleston, South Carolina 3 January to 1 February 1825; Northward to Washington, DC, and Environs 1 February to 16 March 1825; Return to England, Impressions & Observations 16 March to 15 April 1825; Appendix; Index.