the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Thomas Babbington Macaulay : History of England

?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Book

Thomas Babbington Macaulay : [essays]

?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Unknown

Thomas Babbington Macaulay : [uknown]

Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an essay by Macaulay, whose style charmed me, or one of those vibrant, pulpitating lectures on hero-worship by Carlyle!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

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