Record Number: 5530
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest historian that ever lived. Feb 27, 1835'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1834 and 27 Feb 1835
Country:India
Timen/a
Place:city: Calcutta
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:25 Oct 1800
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Historian / critic
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Classics, History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsGreek not translated
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5530
Source:Lord Macaulay
Editor:George Otto Trevelyan
Title:Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1971
Vol:n/a
Page:443
Additional Comments:
N.B. This is marginalia attached at the conclusion of the volume. Appendix II, notes on Macaulay?s Studies at Calcutta Macaulay 21; a number of reading experiences of the classics in this appendix
Citation:
Lord Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, (Oxford, 1971), p. 443, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5530, accessed: 30 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None