Disraeli's Disciple: The Scandalous Life of George Smythe

by Mary S. Millar

One of the most intriguing relationships in Victorian history is that between George Smythe (1818-1857), handsome aristocrat and iconoclast, and Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), society novelist, Jewish outsider, and future British prime minister. While Smythe's friendship was central to Disraeli's rise to political power in the 1840s and 1850s, little has been written about Smythe's life beyond a few paragraphs in biographies and histories of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802090923
• ISBN13: 9780802090928
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"