Note on Sources

Works which appear repeatedly in the footnotes have been given the following short titles after their first appearance, e.g.:

M. & B., for Monypenny and Buckle’s Life of Benjamin Disraeli
Morley, for Morley’s Life of Gladstone
Jerman, for B. R. Jerman, The Young Disraeli
Correspondence, for R. Disraeli (ed.), Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence with his Sister, 1832–52
Zetland, for Lord Zetland, The Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield