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The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian » Read Now
by Bridget Hill. 263 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Catharine Macaulay represented everything the eighteenth century abhorred in a woman. She was learned, politically-minded, and actively engaged with public and philosophical issues of the day. Her private life, and especially her "imprudent" second marriage to a man twenty-six years her junior, led...
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Catharine Macaulay represented everything the eighteenth century abhorred in a woman. She was learned, politically-minded, and actively engaged with public and philosophical issues of the day. Her private life, and especially her "imprudent" second marriage to a man twenty-six years her junior, led to much malicious gossip. Yet in her lifetime she also won considerable fame as the author of an eight-volume history of England in the seventeenth century, a republican, a follower of John Wilkes, and a political polemicist who engaged with Edmund Burke. She not only influenced the nature of eighteenth-century radicalism in England, but also played an important contributory role in shaping American revolution ideology. Among her American friends and correspondents were Mercy Otis Warren, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Ezra Stiles, and George Washington. Long before the Revolution, she was also closely concerned with events in France. Both Mirabeau and Brissot were familiar with her History and much influenced by it; translated into French it was welcomed by patriots as an effective response to the counter-revolutionary influence of Hume's history. The first major biographical study of this remarkable and influential figure, this book should not be ignored by anyone interested in English radicalism or revolutionary politics.
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Catharine Macaulay and the American Revolution, in The Historian » Read Now
by Carla H. Hay. 16 pgs.

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...Catharine Macaulay and the American Revolution...Joseph Priestley, and the historian Catharine Macaulay enjoyed the longest and closest association...movement in...
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"Those Historical Laurels Which Once Graced My Brow Are Now in Their Wane": Catharine Macaulay's Last Years and Legacy., in Studies in Romanticism » Read Now
by Devoney Looser. 24 pgs.

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...brow are now in their wane": Catharine Macaulays last years and legacy...Wollstonecraft praises her predecessor, Catharine Macaulay. Wollstonecraft deems Macaulay...
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English Woman in History ("Catharine Macaulay (1731-91)" begins on p. 306) » Read Now
by Doris Mary Parsons Stenton. 363 pgs.

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Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy: An Eve to Please Me ("'Invidious Censures Will Not Keep Me Mute in the Cause of Liberty and Virtue': Catherine Macaulay and the 'Public Woman'" begins on p. 24) » Read Now
by Saba Bahar. 220 pgs.

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Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy examines Wollstonecraft's attempts to revise representations of women to give them a more active role in public life. Combining history of ideas with close textual reading, Bahar insists that Wollstonecraft's political claims cannot be separated...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy examines Wollstonecraft's attempts to revise representations of women to give them a more active role in public life. Combining history of ideas with close textual reading, Bahar insists that Wollstonecraft's political claims cannot be separated from her desire to develop more convincing aesthetic representations of women.
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Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850 (Chap. 5 "Politics and Sentiment: Catharine Macaulay's Republicanism") » Read Now
by Jurgen Heideking, James A. Henretta, Peter Becker. 309 pgs.

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Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on republicanism and liberalism to a new stage. By systematically studying the similarities and differences in the understanding of...
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Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on republicanism and liberalism to a new stage. By systematically studying the similarities and differences in the understanding of republicanism and liberalism in the United States and German states, the collection stimulates new efforts toward a comprehensive interpretation of political, intellectual, and social developments in the "modernizing" Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Rediscovering Women Philosophers: Philosophical Genre and the Boundaries of Philosophy (Chap. 2 "Catharine Macaulay's Letters on Education: What Constitutes A Philosophical System") » Read Now
by Catherine Villanueva Gardner. 202 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Catherine Villanueva Gardner is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan at Flint.