Benjamin Disraeli
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Benjamin Disraeli served as the Prime Minister of England in 1868 and again from 1874 to 1880. He was also a novelist of some note in his time, though his works have been all but forgotten in this century. He was also known as the Earl of Beaconsfield and the Viscount of Hughenden. He was a member of the Conservative Party and provided the party with a policy of Tory democracy and imperialism. He was of Italian-Jewish descent. When Disraeli was a boy, his father quarreled with the synagogue of Bevis Marks, and this led to the decision in 1817 for the children to be baptized as Christians. Until 1848, Jews were excluded from Parliament, for members had to take an oath of office "on the faith of a true Christian" (Blake 341), and had his father not made the decision to baptize his children, Disraeli's political career could never have started as it did. Disraeli's family was financially comfortable, and after an inheritance the family moved into a large house in the Bloomsbury section of London, where many lawyers and financiers lived. The British Museum was nearby, and young Disraeli visited it often. He preferred to spend his time among the books in his father's library, though, and later would remember that he liked to "play" at being a member of Parliament. The boy attended small private schools, including a Unitarian school. There are conflicting stories about what sort of student he was. His father pressured him to become a lawyer, so Disraeli accepted his
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nd an imaginative writer and that his political ideas and literary efforts are of a piece. . . His strength lay in his specialized knowledge; it would be almost true to say he had to become a politician before he could become a novelist. But within his limitations he grasped and expressed the essential situation of his times with a boldness beyond that of much greater novelists (Allen 178).
From his earliest years Disraeli expressed ambition, brilliance, self-assurance, and egotism, and he was always certain that he would one day become Prime Minister. Once he had decided this course, he worked consciously and methodically toward this end. The fact that he was born a Jew would handicap him in his public life, and his original religion was always considered a political liability by both friends and enemies. The politician and the novelist differed in some respects. For one thing, the politician always had to live in a world of politics and statecraft and had to deal with expediency and compromise. In his non-political life, though, Disraeli was able to drop the statesman's pose and to develop his more essential ideas. He could express his ideals through the imaginative world of his characters (Levine 26-27).
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