Record Number: 22598
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read Demosthenes (1836, 1837). Several references to the difficulty of the text, e.g.: "All the same, Demosthenes is tough reading: far more difficult to me than Herodotus and Plato, or the ordinary narrative of Thucydides, let alone Xenophon." On p.1: "The Olynthiacs were the first Demosthenes I read, in prefect room at Harrow, about 1853."
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1918 and 1 1921
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:20 Jul 1838
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:Historian and statesman
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The Olynthiacs
Genre:Classics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Longmans, Green, 1912
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:22598
Source - Manuscript:Other
Information:
MS notes in book cited below
Additional Information:
n/a
Citation:
MS notes in book cited below, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22598, accessed: 01 October 2024
Additional Comments:
Probably read at Wallington. I have not transcribed all the notes.