He was a descendant of the poet Robert Herrick
and related to the abolitionist Zachary Macaulay
. The couple first saw each other at a music meeting.
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
189-90
He was a fond but possessive husband...
Family and Intimate relationships
Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay
His father, Zachary Macaulay
, was prominent both in the Clapham Sect
and as an abolitionist. His relationship with his father is treated in Catherine Hall
's double biography, Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial...
Friends, Associates
Hannah More
Many of her later friends were at least a generation younger than she was. She met many members of the Clapham Sect
in the 1790s, of whom Henry Thornton
and his daughter Marianne
became particularly...
Literary responses
Hannah More
Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith
in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM
's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...
Textual Production
Hannah More
HM
was a formidably energetic letter-writer all her life, from her early visits to London, which produced scintillating and gossippy letters home, to her old age. Individual collections reached print, like those to Zachary Macaulay
Timeline
mid 1792-1815: These were the active years of the informal...
Building item
mid 1792-1815
These were the active years of the informal evangelical Anglican group later called the Clapham Sect
(then known as the Saints
).
Hennell, Michael. John Venn and the Clapham Sect. Lutterworth Press, 1958.
107
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
ODNB
By November 1802: The Society for the Suppression of Vice was...