Phyllis Weliver is Professor in the Department of English at Saint Louis University, Missouri. Her previous publications include Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860–1900 (2000) and The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840–1910 (2006).

• Part I. Intellectual History: 1. Idealist philosophy, culture and the Gladstones; 2. The passion of liberalism; 3. The Victorian salon; 4. Music and the Gladstone salon; Part II. Musical and Literary Case Studies: 5. Mary Gladstone's diary and the Royal College of Music; 6. '… there ought to be some melody in poetry': Tennyson's salon readings; 7. '… musical, I see!': triangulated criticism and Daniel Deronda; 8. Conclusion.

'… Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon, explores the importance of the musico-literary intersections of the late nineteenth-century salon to Victorian liberalis … A key strength of Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon is the way in which it uniquely extends nineteenth-century scholarship by revealing new details and connections.' Roger Hansford, Romance, Revolution and Reform