Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay

The Critical Review opened its notice with ironic hyperbole: Whatever has been invented to perplex, astonish, and terrify, sinks into a tame and insipid narrative, when compared with the description before us. It noted that...

Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written...

Later again there was affection, if not much respect, in Byron 's declaration that he disdain[ed] to write an Atalantis (that is, to drop names about Don Juan's activities in England). But DM 's...

This was badly reviewed by Thomas Babington Macaulay , who did not share its author's respect for Addison.

Thomas Babington Macaulay praised this work and other political economists, like Jean-Baptiste Say , Malthus and Ricardo , approved it. Although at least one edition of more than a decade after the first was respectfully...

Her translations of Ranke 's works were praised by Henry Hart Milman , Dean of St Paul's, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay . Macaulay's response to History of the Popes was: Of this translation we...

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

EM 's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford and Thomas Babington Macaulay . He called them absurd and his own taste for them...

Rendered homeless by a bomb on the Albany in Piccadilly, GBS moved first to a hotel at a place she calls Bramblebury (apparently Blewbury in Berkshire), where her friend and fellow-novelist Marguerite Steen

The following year they moved to a haunted house in Macedonia. In 1930 they returned to England, where they occupied various homes. Their first was near Horsham; the second, where they stayed...

As usual FAS is concerned here with the political and personal intersections of Indian and British lives. She takes a sardonic view of the impact of the policy of Anglicization inaugurated by Macaulay 's 1835...

When managing her own schooling, she wrote essays (on Macaulay who fascinated, on Thackeray who distinctly bored), tortured pieces, overflowing with quotations, leaden with words, . . . dragged out of myself by the sweat...

MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

HM left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society