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3 unusual facts about Catharine Macaulay


Catharine Macaulay

Educated by a governess, Catharine Macaulay later described herself to her friend Benjamin Rush as "a thoughtless girl till she was twenty, at which time she contracted a taste for books and knowledge by reading an odd volume of some history, which she picked up in a window of her father's house".

She stayed at Mount Vernon with George Washington and his family in 1785; the two continued to correspond about the organisation of the ideal government for the remainder of her life.

She believed that the Anglo-Saxons possessed freedom and equality with representative institutions, lost at the Norman Conquest.



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