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Macaulay and Victorian review on English history
The Westminster Review surveys Macaulay’s History of England from James II onward, praising its sweeping synthesis and revelatory portraits. It notes the vivid chapters on Puritanism, civil strife, and the accession era, while contrasting the work’s broad temperament with dense quotations and detail.
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Westminster Review
Westminster
Channing
Keats
Morning Chronicle
Examiner
Luther
Howard
Clarkson
Cobden
Waite
Curwen
Charles II
Louis Napoleon
Tait
West Riding
Sir Culling
Church of England Quarterly Review
Fairfax
John Keats
Marsh
Bampton
D. Davison
Rees
Taylor
England
James II
K. B. Macaulay
London
Longman and Co
Mr. Macaulay
Macaulay
Plantagenets
France
Richard I
Henry VII
Church of England
Rome
James the First
Zwingle
Mars
Bacchus
Apollo
Ben Jonson
Charles I
Wentworth
Laud
Falkland
Cromwell
Southwark
Trent