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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton Thomas Babington Macaulay[probably The History of England from the Accessio...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
" ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time: "'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intoxication from Mozart and Beethoven than any common mo...anon Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome given to him in 1848, "when Raven wa...John James Raven Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada"Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entertainment, and admiration of the intellectual robustne...Henry James Thomas Babington MacaulayLifePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of the Edinburgh Review, a notice of Madme d?Arblay, ver...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington MacaulayDiary and Letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Babington Macaulay [perhaps] History of England [?]Print: Book
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have just finished the last number of the "Edinburgh Revie...Lord Francis Jeffrey Thomas Babington Macaulayarticle on Frederick of PrussiaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [italics]very[end italics] most entertaining reading I ...Mary Berry Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936: 'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain rather active in fact: but didn't write -- did not...Virginia Woolf Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops and the Relief of Derry -and it was therefore natural...Thomas A. Jackson Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops and the Relief of Derry -and it was therefore natural...Thomas A. Jackson Thomas Babington MacaulayWarren HastingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Macauleys "history of England", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to remain, it is a book, that when once a person has c...Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.'Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulaySpeeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M....Print: Book
1800-1849'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, indeed, a type-reviewer - an authentic specimen-page o...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and began to read Macaulay's essay on Bacon - "the grea...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays [on Bacon]Print: Book
1850-1899'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England".' ...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book



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