Record Number: 24599

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849: 'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article. 'The repetition has more than doubled my gratification, and my sense of the effectiveness of your chastisement. 'The great point of all is that you have decidedly fixed Mr. Macaulay's position in the literary republic. He is a great -- a very great -- historical novelist, and can never more be regarded in the severe character of an historian.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Feb 1849 and 13 Apr 1849

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Time

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Place:

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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:

Bishop of Exeter

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Bishop of Exeter

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

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Country of Experience:

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

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Additional Comments:

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Text Being Read:

Author:

John Wilson Croker

Title:

article on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, History

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Quarterly Review 84 (March 1849)

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

24599

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Louis J. Jennings

Title:

The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1884

Vol:

3

Page:

193

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830, (London, 1884), 3, p. 193, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=24599, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source ed. explains that Croker had stated in article that 'Macaulay's work must be regarded chiefly as an historical romance' and could '"never be quoted as authority on any question or point of the history of England"'; see note to p.193 in source.