Record Number: 5537

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from the 24th of May to the 23rd of August 1835. The fourth on the Sundays beginning from the 1st of January 1837'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1837 and 31 Dec 1838

Country:

India

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Calcutta

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 / 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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Plautus

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Classics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Latin not translated

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5537

Source:

Print

Author:

Thomas Babington 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/a

Citation:

Thomas Babington 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=5537, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

NB this is marginalia attached to Macaulay?s copy of Plautus. Macaulay read this in total six times ? see other entries in database.