Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine (Sawbridge)
- Macaulay, Mrs. Catherine (Sawbridge)
(1731-1791)
Dau. of a landed proprietor of Kent, was an advocate of republicanism, and a sympathiser with the French Revolution. She wrote a History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Elevation of the House of Hanover (8 vols., 1763-83), which had great popularity in its day, some critics, e.g. Horace Walpole, placing it above Hume. Though a work of no real research or authority, it is in the main well written.
Short biographical dictionary of English literature .
John W. Cousin.
2011.
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