The Letters of Thomas Babington MacAulay: Volume 5, January 1849–December 1855

Omtale

The years covered in this fifth volume of Macaulay's letters were a striking mixture of triumph and loss. The publication of the first part of The History of England at the end of 1848 set Macaulay at the top of his fame, not merely in England, but on the Continent and in America.