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 Catherine Macaulay Information
566 words, approx. 2 pages
 Mrs. Catharine Macaulay (born Catharine Sawbridge and, by the time of her death, Mrs. Catharine Graham) (1731‑1791) was an English historian. A daughter of John Sawbridge of Olantigh, a landed proprietor from Kent, she was an advocate of...
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 The Washington Post Mostly Macaulay
05/14/1989: 676 words, approx. 2 pages NOT BY FACT ALONE Essays on the Writing And Reading of History By John Clive Knopf 334 pp. $27.50 THE FIRST volume of John Clive's biography of Macaulay, The Shaping of the Historian, was published in 1973 to general acclaim. Unfortunately we still... summary from source:
The Boston Globe David Macaulay
02/07/1999: 912 words, approx. 3 pages With The New Way Things Work, illustrator-author David Macaulay has 17 books to his credit. Many show how things are built. Macaulay, 52, lives and works in Bristol, Rhode Island. How can you know so much about so many disciplines and devices? Well,...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Lucy Martin Donnelly
13,553 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, one of the earliest critical commentaries on Macaulay's life and work, Donnelly argues that despite the many flaws in the historian's writings, Macaulay should be remembered as one of the great proponents of political liberty.
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Critical Essay by Cecile Mazzucco-Than
13,346 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Mazzucco-Than argues that the principal fame Macaulay's History of England garnered in the eighteenth century as well as its subsequent neglect during the past two centuries is due to a single cause—-a continuing emphasis on the gender of the historian herself.
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Critical Essay by Lynne E. Withey
10,532 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Withey argues that Macaulay's History of England can be best understood by considering the author's social, political, and religious idealism, and notes that Macaulay considered historical analysis to be the best means for conveying the possibility of human political, moral, and institutional perfection.
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