Record Number: 5533

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1834 and 9 Oct 1837

Country:

India

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Calcutta

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Oct 1800

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Historian / critic

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

India

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Xenophon

Title:

Anabasis

Genre:

Classics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Greek not translated

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5533

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Editor:

George Otto Trevelyan

Title:

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1971

Vol:

n/a

Page:

443

Additional Comments:

NB this is marginalia attached to Macaulay?s copy of Xenophon. Macaulay clearly read this more than once; this entry is for the third recorded reading of it. Macaulay 24; a number of reading experiences of the classics in this appendix.

Citation:

Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1971), p. 443, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5533, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None