| Evidence: | The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849:
'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article.
'The repetition has more than doubled my gratification, and my sense of the effectiveness of your chastisement.
'The great point of all is that you have decidedly fixed Mr. Macaulay's position in the literary republic. He is a great -- a very great -- historical novelist, and can never more be regarded in the severe character of an historian.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Feb 1849 and 13 Apr 1849 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Bishop of Exeter |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | Bishop of Exeter |
| Religion: | Church of England |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | John Wilson Croker |
| Title: | article on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | In the Quarterly Review 84 (March 1849) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 24599 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Louis J. Jennings | |
| Title: | The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1884 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 193 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Louis J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 t0 1830 (London, 1884), 3, p. 193, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=24599, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Source ed. explains that Croker had stated in article that 'Macaulay's work must be regarded chiefly as an historical romance' and could '"never be quoted as authority on any question or point of the history of England"'; see note to p.193 in source. |
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