The novelist and journalist Eliza Lynn Linton confesses that she was once an ardent Home Ruler, moved by sentiment and abstract principle, and sets out the reasons she changed her mind. She attacks Gladstone and his lieutenants, describes the Irish character as she now sees it, and argues that self-government would harm both Ireland and Britain.
A short polemic of the Home Rule crisis, revealing for its period prejudices about the Irish as much as for its argument. Download the free EPUB.