Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay
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Standard Name: Macaulay, Thomas Babington,,, first Baron
Used Form: Lord Macaulay
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Literary responses | Lucy Aikin | This was badly reviewed by Thomas Babington Macaulay
, who did not share its author's respect for Addison. |
Literary responses | Jane Marcet | 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... |
Literary responses | Sarah Austin | Her translations of Ranke
's works were praised by Henry Hart Milman
, Dean of St Paul's, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Literary responses | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's sister-in-law Lady Giffard
wrote that she often wished for Dorothy's love-letters to be published: I never saw any thing more extraordinary. Temple, Sir William, and Martha, Lady Giffard. The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple Bt. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press. 6 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Osborne | The first printing of DO
letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay
two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice
and Martine Rey
, Letters by Women in... |
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... |
Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron
wrote but later burned. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 7 |
Reception | Elizabeth Meeke | 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... |
Residence | G. B. Stern | 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 |
Residence | Georgette Heyer | 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... |
Textual Features | Flora Annie Steel | 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... |
Textual Production | Sybille Bedford | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | 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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Hannah More | 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 |
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