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  1. Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge, later Graham; 23 March 1731 – 22 June 1791), was an English Whig republican historian.

  2. Catharine Macaulay was a British historian and radical political writer. She was privately educated, and her readings in Greek and Roman history inculcated in her an enthusiasm for libertarian and republican ideals. Following her marriage to the Scottish physician George Macaulay in 1760, she began.

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  3. Jul 5, 2012 · Catharine Macaulay’s most substantial work was the eight-volume A History of England from the Accession of James I. to that of the Brunswick Line, the first volume of which was published in 1763, but the last not until twenty years later.

  4. Macaulay, Catharine (1731–1791) Controversial British historian, political radical, and champion of women's education who was an ardent supporter of America in 18th-century England. Name variations: Catherine or Catharine Macaulay-Graham; Catherine Graham Macaulay; Catherine Saw-bridge Macaulay.

  5. Catharine Macaulay. Called by Mary Wollstonecraft a "woman of the greatest ability, undoubtedly, that this country has ever produced," in her famous treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Catharine Macaulay was the first female British historian. She also was a proto-feminist and a Whig, having grown up surrounded by the radical ...

  6. Portrait by Robert Edge Pine. Catharine Macaulay, née Sawbridge ( later Catharine Graham) *March 23, 1731 (Olantigh, England) †June 22, 1791 (Binfield, England) Spouse: George Macaulay. Macaulay was an English philosopher born near Canterbury in 1731.

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  8. The writings of republican historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) played a central role in debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution.

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