√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form 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 : Book1850-1899 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 Macaulay History of England Print : Book1800-1849 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 Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" Print : Book1850-1899 Henry 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 Macaulay Life Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Macaulay History of England Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 '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 Macaulay Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Babington Macaulay [perhaps] History of England [?] Print : Book1800-1849 Lord 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 Macaulay article on Frederick of Prussia Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Mary 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 Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James... Print : Book1900-1945 Virginia 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 Macaulay unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Macaulay History of England Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Macaulay Warren Hastings Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time'
Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington Macaulay The history of England from the accession of James... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting'
Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington Macaulay The history of England from the accession of James... Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Macaulay The history of England from the accession of James... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington Macaulay The history of England from the accession of James... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington Macaulay Speeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M.... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Macaulay Essays Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Macaulay Essays [on Bacon] Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Macaulay History of England Print : Book