Record Number: 22595

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay was in India 1835,1836." Multiple dates of reading include 1903, 1920, 1924. P.71, referring to his childhood notes: "What a funny mean, little hand I wrote seventy five years ago at Harrow! Do I write better now?" P.428: "Golden poetry indeed! I have now finished a long course of Greek drama, having read the whole of Euripides at least once, and eight or ten of his plays twice or even thrice. I shall now confine myself to history - to Herodotus, Tacitus, Thucydides, and Suetonius. When I have finished all of them once more, or probably even sooner, I shall be finished myself. January 16 1925 Welcombe."

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1854 and 1925

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

20 Jul 1838

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

Historian and statesman

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sophocles

Title:

Sophoclis Tragodiae superstites

Genre:

Classics, Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman,1846

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

22595

Source - Manuscript:

Other

Author:

MS notes in book cited below.,

Citation:

MS notes in book cited below., http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=22595, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

I have not transcribed all the MS notes.