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Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge, later Graham; 23 March – 22 June ) was a famed English Whig historian. She was the first Englishwoman to become an historian and during her lifetime the world's only published female historian.This thesis concerns the life Sources for Catharine Macaulay’s early life are scarce, and modern historians have relied on the account published by Mary Hays in her Female Biography (Hays , –; Hill , 1–24). Hays represents Macaulay’s childhood as a romance of miraculous self-education.
書名:Sedition: Macaulay to Modi,語言:英文,ISBN:9781032768946,頁數:196,作者:Uppal, 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 politicians of her day.
This introductory chapter provides Macaulay was a contradictory thinker, whose advocacy for women’s education and republican equality was at times undermined by her virtual silence on the question of women’s independence, understood as equal rights or access to citizenship (see Can Macaulay Reconcile Universal Principles with Social Context?.