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The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 4, September 1841-December 1848

Author: Thomas MacAulay

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Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 430

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The fourth volume of Thomas Pinney's acclaimed edition of Macaulay's letters covers the period between September 1841 and December 1848, in which Macaulay is shown keeping up an active political life as MP for Edinburgh and member of Lord John Russell's Whig Cabinet. At the same time his literary reputation is extended by The Lays of Ancient Rome, the collected Essays, and, at the end of the period spanned by this volume, the triumphant publication of the first two volumes of the History of England. In the same years Macaulay was enjoying perhaps the most satisfactory period of his private life: we see him comfortably established in the Albany, enjoying the society of his sister and her family, taking part as a leading figure in Whig political and literary circles, and confidently at work on the book which was to crown his fame.

The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 4, September 1841-December 1848

Author: Thomas MacAulay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1977-02-17

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 9780521211260

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The fourth volume of Thomas Pinney's acclaimed edition of Macaulay's letters covers the period between September 1841 and December 1848, in which Macaulay is shown keeping up an active political life as MP for Edinburgh and member of Lord John Russell's Whig Cabinet. At the same time his literary reputation is extended by The Lays of Ancient Rome, the collected Essays, and, at the end of the period spanned by this volume, the triumphant publication of the first two volumes of the History of England. In the same years Macaulay was enjoying perhaps the most satisfactory period of his private life: we see him comfortably established in the Albany, enjoying the society of his sister and her family, taking part as a leading figure in Whig political and literary circles, and confidently at work on the book which was to crown his fame.

The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 2, March 1831-December 1833

Author: Thomas MacAulay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1974-06-06

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9780521202022

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Some of Macaulay's letters were printed in nineteenth-century memoirs, but a 'Complete Letters' of this eminent Victorian has long been needed. Professor Pinney is editing the whole body of surviving letters by Macaulay, giving accurate texts and textual and explanatory notes. The letters are in chronological order, grouped by historical theme and phases of Macaulay's life. The first two volumes deal with his childhood, career at Cambridge, early legal career and early political career, and end with him about to leave for India. The letters are lively because Macaulay (as lawyer, essayist, historian, politician, administrator, poet) was a man of enormous energy and very wide interests. They will add greatly to our sense of early Victorian political and cultural life as well as to our understanding of Macaulay himself.

Victorians Against the Gallows

Author: James Gregory

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0857721062

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By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study which will be essential reading for students and researchers of Victorian history.

The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy

Author: Robert Crowcroft

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages: 344

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Maurice Cowling is a well-known and controviersial British historian and thinker in the field of Conservatism, British democracy and life in modern Britain. This book brings together perspectives from politics, religion and philosophy to explore Cowling's work.