Record Number: 3953

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Mar 1829 and 14 Mar 1829

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Lancaster

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, politician

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Ephemera

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3953

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Editor:

George Otto Trevelyan

Title:

Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

1

Page:

140

Additional Comments:

Letter of Mar 14, 1829, from Macaulay to his father.

Citation:

Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1978), 1, p. 140, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3953, accessed: 09 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

None