Author: George Otto TrevelyanPublisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Macaulay and Son
Author: Catherine HallPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300189184
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay's vision of England, tracing the influence of his father's career as a colonial governor and drawing illuminating comparisons between the two men.
The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Author: George Otto TrevelyanPublisher:
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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Macaulay: the Shaping of the Historian
Author: John Leonard ClivePublisher: New York : Knopf
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Determined to be his own man, he had no sooner achieved financial and political security--in a lucrative post on the Governor-General's Council in India--than the relationship with his beloved sisters so necessary to his emotional security was destroyed. Here is the public Macaulay: cocksure and impetuous, a parvenu lacking the specific gravity of a statesman, and yet speaking out not only for freedom as an abstraction, but concretely for the rights of Jews, Roman Catholics and blacks; envisioning a potential beauty and splendor in industrialization; almost singlehandedly writing a penal code for India; becoming embroiled in the crucial controversy over Indian education (what should be taught and in what language); and forever leaving his mark on Anglo-Indian cultural relations--just as India left its mark on him.
The letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 4, September 1841-December 1848
Author: Thomas MacAulayPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The fourth volume of Thomas Pinney's acclaimed edition of Macaulay's letters covers the period between September 1841 and December 1848, in which Macaulay is shown keeping up an active political life as MP for Edinburgh and member of Lord John Russell's Whig Cabinet. At the same time his literary reputation is extended by The Lays of Ancient Rome, the collected Essays, and, at the end of the period spanned by this volume, the triumphant publication of the first two volumes of the History of England. In the same years Macaulay was enjoying perhaps the most satisfactory period of his private life: we see him comfortably established in the Albany, enjoying the society of his sister and her family, taking part as a leading figure in Whig political and literary circles, and confidently at work on the book which was to crown his fame.
The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 2, March 1831-December 1833
Author: Thomas MacAulayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521202022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Some of Macaulay's letters were printed in nineteenth-century memoirs, but a 'Complete Letters' of this eminent Victorian has long been needed. Professor Pinney is editing the whole body of surviving letters by Macaulay, giving accurate texts and textual and explanatory notes. The letters are in chronological order, grouped by historical theme and phases of Macaulay's life. The first two volumes deal with his childhood, career at Cambridge, early legal career and early political career, and end with him about to leave for India. The letters are lively because Macaulay (as lawyer, essayist, historian, politician, administrator, poet) was a man of enormous energy and very wide interests. They will add greatly to our sense of early Victorian political and cultural life as well as to our understanding of Macaulay himself.
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 6, January 1856-December 1859
Author: Thomas MacAulayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521089029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The last four years of Macaulay's life, documented in this final volume of the Letters, began as an agreeable coda to the rest. He had come to terms with his invalid state, and took great satisfaction in the achievement that he had already realised. He continued to work at his History, but without any expectations or anxieties, instead he enjoyed what his labours had already brought him. First among these was his house, Holly Lodge, in Kensington, where he removed early in 1856 after nearly fifteen years in chambers at the Albany. At Holly Lodge, attended by servants, and visited by a steady company of family and friends, Macaulay took pleasure in entertaining, and in supervising the care of his trees, lawn and flowers - novel amusements to an urban bachelor of literary habits.
The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay: January 1834-August 1841
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Macaulay's Essays on Oliver Goldsmith, Frederic the Great and Madame D'Arblay
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron MacaulayPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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