The complete online text of Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield.

Disraeli's novels merit renewed attention not only because of their wit, insight, breadth, and vision but because they present strikingly original imagined worlds. Like the other major Victorian novelists, Disraeli is a deft psychologist and a student of...

The life of Benjamin Disraeli, later Lord Beaconsfield, is a useful reminder to students of Victorian England that most generalizations about the period are worth questioning. It seemed impossible that a middle-class Jew given to endless debts, messy aff...

The English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), supported imperialism while opposing free trade. The leader of the Conservative party, he served as prime minister in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880. Benjamin Disraeli was born on...

(Nee Brenckle) Of Tucson, AZ, died March 12, 1997, age 89 years. Beloved wife of the late Mark Taylor and Art Coningsby. Dear mother of Wanda Stoops and Frances Alier and a loving grandmother. Also survived by her sister Marian McConochie, nieces, nephews, and...

Contrasts of tone and texture are a feature of the work of great photographers. A surreal colonial remnant in south west Africa presented Jim Naughten with the chance to explore these two aspects of his art with pictures of the Herero and Himba tribes...