Catharine Macaulay was a celebrated republican historian, whose
account of the reasons for the seventeenth-century English
Revolution, the parliamentary period, and its aftermath was widely
read by the mothers and fathers of American Independence and by
central players in the French Revolution. As well as publishing her
eight volume history, spanning the period from the accession of
James I to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, she wrote political
pamphlets, offered a sketch of a republican constitution for
Corsica, advocated parliamentary reform, and published a response
to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Her
Letters on Education of 1790 made a decisive impact on the thought
of Mary Wollstonecraft, and her Treatise on the Immutability of
Moral Truth opposed the skeptical and utilitarian attitudes being
developed by Hume and others. This volume brings together for the
first time all the available letters between her and her
wide-ranging correspondents, who include George Washington, John
Adams, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis, Benjamin Rush,
David Hume, James Boswell, Thomas Hollis, John Wilkes, Horace
Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville,
and many other luminaries of the eighteenth-century enlightenment.
It includes an extended introduction to her life and works and
offers a unique insight into the thinking of her friends and
correspondents during the period between 1760 and 1790, the
crucible for the development of modern representative democracies.
The Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay will appeal to scholars of
philosophy, political thought, women's studies, and
eighteenth-century history, as well as those interested in the
development of democratic ideas.
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