Essays in Political & Literary History
Wilson · Gladstone · Disraeli
By Delmington Peregrine
Est. 2025
Wilson · March 2025
A scholar has asserted that Wilson was no southern partisan in part because he saw John Calhoun as provincial. But Wilson had a long and not unadmiring relationship to the influential Southern statesman.
March 24, 2025
Gladstone · March 2025
The religious quandary at the heart of Disraeli’s late novel and what the Derby diaries reveal about his real beliefs.
March 22, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
Wilson seems to have thought surprisingly little about British New Liberalism before the war.
March 21, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
For 150 years, reception was negative about this novel. Then, starting 20 years ago, something changed.
March 18, 2025
Wilson · March 2025
Was Woodrow Wilson a racist because of southern partisanship, or because of Hegelian sympathies?
March 17, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
A quick look at a hugely influential novel.
March 15, 2025
About
Delmington Peregrine is a journalist, writer, and arts critic. These essays trace the intersection of political history and literary criticism, with Woodrow Wilson, Benjamin Disraeli, and William Ewart Gladstone as sustained focal figures.