{"id":16869,"date":"2023-10-01T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=16869"},"modified":"2023-10-14T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T10:21:12","slug":"catharine-macaulay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=16869","title":{"rendered":"Catharine Macaulay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Catharine Macaulay (n\u00e9e Sawbridge<\/a> pub. 1764 \u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Yes, I did say I was done with family ties<\/a>! But then along came Catherine Macaulay in an LRB<\/em> piece<\/a> by Colin Kidd (Vol. 45 No. 17 \u00b7 7 September 2023<\/a>). No, she is not related to Lord Macaulay who is the great-uncle of G. M(acaulay). Trevelyan. What all did have in common, though, were their ambitious writing down of the ‘big’ histories of a (then) ‘big’ England. And this<\/em> Catharine did so well before those<\/em> blokes – in a multi-volume affair written over twenty years titled The History of England from the Accession of James I to the Revolution<\/em> (1763-1783). (Only much later came Lord (Th. Babington) Macaulay also making it to five volumes with his The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848)<\/em> and Trevelyan, of course writing in the first half of the 20th century, had diverse titles to his credit but could also not resist a History of England<\/em> in 1928<\/a>, and in one tome.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kidd’s review of Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings<\/a><\/em> edited by Max Skj\u00f6nsberg<\/a> for the Cambridge University Press series of Texts in the History of Political Thought<\/a> comes for me as a wonderful introduction. Encouraged to look around, I discern some sense of renewed interest in Macaulay, and it is hardly surprising; for, however well-situated, however intelligent, the horizon for a woman in the 18th century was far and her opportunities limited in scope and only those with the most pertinacious of character and originality of thought have left their mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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by Robert Edge Pine oil on canvas, circa 1775 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo by Richard Samuel oil on canvas, 1778 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u00a9 National Portrait Gallery, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For further information, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<\/em> has a lengthy entry<\/a>, which interestingly mentions the “Blue Stockings” portrait (above r.) in which Catharine Macaulay is seated left beneath Apollo and behind her stands, with goblet in hand, Hannah More<\/a> whose acquaintanceship and name was to live on (via Zachary)<\/a> in that other Macaulay\/Trevelyan tribe. Further, a first taste of her original voice can be read at the Online Library of Liberty<\/a><\/em> (new to me!) in a text written in 1790<\/a> (in response to Edmund Burke<\/a>) on republicanism and the Revolution in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, I did say I was done with family ties! But then along came Catherine Macaulay in an LRB piece by Colin Kidd (Vol. 45 No. 17 \u00b7 7 September 2023). No, she is not related to Lord Macaulay who is the great-uncle of G. M(acaulay). Trevelyan. What all did have in common, though, were … Continue reading “Catharine Macaulay”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[170,151],"tags":[457,153,439],"class_list":["post-16869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-philosophy","tag-catharine-macaulay","tag-london-review-of-books","tag-trevelyan-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16869"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17150,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions\/17150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}