Record Number: 1626

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not know whether I shall like it as well now. May 1, 1837."

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1817 and 1825

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Oct 1800

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Historian and critic

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Plato

Title:

Gorgias

Genre:

Classics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

The edition published in Frankfort, 1602, with a parallel Latin translation by Marsilius Ficinus

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

1626

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Editor:

George Otto Trevelyan

Title:

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1978

Vol:

2

Page:

436

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 436, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=1626, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

This entry records Macaulay's first experience of reading the Gorgias, at [Trinity] College.