Evidence: | 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, with the punkah swinging overhead, with as much enjoyment as ever Charles James Fox read the romances of Voltaire to his wife in the garden at St. Anne's Hill, though with a less irreproachable accent.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1834 and 1838 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime: afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Calcutta location in dwelling: the upstairs chamber |
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | historian and critic |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Macaulay's sister |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Paul Louis Courier |
Title: | Le Simple Discours |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Pamphlet |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 312 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 405 | |
Additional comments: | Appendix on Macaulay's marginal notes. |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 405, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=312, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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