Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay

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Standard Name: Macaulay, Thomas Babington,,, first Baron
Used Form: Lord Macaulay

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Education Virginia Woolf
Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë , Lady Barlow (a commentator on Charles Darwin ), Dinah Mulock Craik , George Eliot ,...
Education Winifred Peck
It was probably Mary A. Marzials ' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans 's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure...
Education Dora Greenwell
Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885.
73
She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans
Friends, Associates Georgiana Chatterton
In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor .
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
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She moved and entertained...
Friends, Associates Sara Coleridge
Friends, Associates Hannah More
Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge (brought by Joseph Cottle the Bristol bookseller),
Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. 2nd ed., Houlston and Stoneman, 1847.
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Algernon Knox (a precursor of late Victorian High Churchmanship), Anna Letitia Barbauld , Elizabeth Fry , and a goodly...
Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
Friends of LDG 's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham , theCarlyles , James Mill , Macaulay , and Sydney Smith . Her own childhood friends included her...
Friends, Associates Agnes Strickland
They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell , Robert Southey , Charles Lamb , editor William Jerdan , and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland , Jane
Friends, Associates Sarah Austin
The couple were also good friends with Thomas and Jane Carlyle . SA helped the Carlyles with their house-hunting in London,
Tarr, Rodger L. “’Let us burn our ships’: Carlyle, Sarah Austin, and House-Hunting in London”. Studies in Scottish Literature, edited by G. Ross Roy, University of South Carolina Press, 1987, pp. 91-94.
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and introduced Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill . Other friends included...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Rigby
ER appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy , where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron (Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray . At London parties...
Friends, Associates Mary Berry
Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...
Friends, Associates Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton
His friends included Benjamin Disraeli , Charles Dickens , John Forster , and Thomas Babington Macaulay . Later in life he conducted a long, mentoring friendship by letter with Mary Elizabeth Braddon . He also...
Intertextuality and Influence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Berry
A sixth volume, added in October 1840, opens with a defence of Walpole against the most unjust impressions given of his head and heart, talents and character, by Macaulay in the Edinburgh Review in 1833...
Literary responses Georgiana Chatterton
GC was already beginning her habit of sending out copies of her works to eminent literary men, who were usually polite enough to reply with the hoped-for tribute of praise. She sent a copy of...

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2 February 1835: Thomas Babington Macaulay published his Minute...

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2 February 1835

Thomas Babington Macaulay published his Minute on Indian Education.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 5 November 1842: Thomas Babington Macaulay, politician and...

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By 5 November 1842

Thomas Babington Macaulay , politician and historian, published his popular Lays of Ancient Rome.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
784 (1842): 942
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
469
University of Toronto Library Catalogue. http://main.library.utoronto.ca/.

1 April 1843: Thomas Babington Macaulay published Critical...

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1 April 1843

Thomas Babington Macaulay published Critical and Historical Essays.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
805 (1 April 1843): 302-3

About 9 December 1848: Thomas Babington Macaulay published the first...

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About 9 December 1848

Thomas Babington Macaulay published the first two volumes of his History of England.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1102 (9 December 1848): 1229-31
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

By 22 December 1855: Thomas Babington Macaulay published volumes...

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By 22 December 1855

Thomas Babington Macaulay published volumes III and IV of The History of England from the Accession of James the Second.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(22 Dec. 1855): 1489-94

1861: The fifth and last volume of the History...

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1861

The fifth and last volume of the History of England by Thomas Babington Macaulay was posthumously published, edited by his sister Hannah .
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

By 8 April 1876: Sir George Otto Trevelyan published The Life...

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By 8 April 1876

Sir George Otto Trevelyan published The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2528 (1876): 489
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Texts

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, first Baron. Critical and Historical Essays. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843, 3 vols.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, first Baron. Lays of Ancient Rome. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, first Baron, and Rita Raley. “Macaulay’s Minute on Indian Education, 2 February 1835”. History of English Studies Page.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, first Baron. The History of England. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1861, 5 vols.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, first Baron. The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay. Editor Pinney, Thomas, Vol.
6 volumes
, Cambridge University Press, 1981.