Of all the eminent Victorians, Thomas Babington Macaulay is probably the least read and most forgotten. A historian who aspired to and succeeded in writing “literary” prose as engaging and fluent as his novelistic contemporaries—Dickens and Thackeray and Trollope—he is absent from the syllabus of college history or English departments in this country and doubtless […]

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