MAK
says that her first publication, hastily written and apparently unidentified, consisted of two little tales, which fell dead-born from the press. Since this phrase is borrowed from David Hume
, it sets herself in...
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Catharine Macaulay
By undertaking archival work in seventeenth-century pamphlets, CM
set out to ensure that her history should surpass that of Hume
(who was generally regarded as a Tory historian, though he was ambivalent about this label)...