When their father’s political career collapses, the twins Endymion and Myra Ferrars fall from privilege into genteel poverty. Through the 1830s and 1840s Myra’s ambition and a circle of influential women help carry Endymion through clerkships, society drawing rooms and Parliament, among thinly disguised versions of the statesmen and adventurers Disraeli knew.
Written by Disraeli after leaving office, a knowing portrait of Victorian high politics and its hidden machinery. Download the free EPUB.