afterwards thanked Samuel Adams for introducing him to "this excellent Lady". Upon the recommendation of Lee and Henry Knox, Macaulay stayed at Mount Vernon with George Washington and his family. Afterwards, Washington wrote to Lee of his pleasure at meeting "a Lady ... whose principles are so much and so justly admired by the friends of liberty and mankind". Last years According to Mary Hays, Macaulay "had been furnished by general Washington with many materials" for a history of the American Revolution but that "she was, by the infirm state of her health" stopped from doing so. Macaulay wrote to Mercy in 1787: "Tho' the History of your late glorious revolution is what I should certainly undertake were I again young, yet as things are I must for many reasons decline such a task". She died in Binfield in Berkshire on 22 June 1791 and was buried in All Saints' parish church there. Works The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line: Volume I (1763). Volume II (1765). Volume III (1767). Volume IV (1768). Volume V (1771). Volume VI (1781). Volume VII (1781). Volume VIII (1783). Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be found in Mr. Hobbes's 'Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society', with a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signor Paoli (1767). Observations on a Pamphlet entitled 'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents''' (1770).A Modest Plea for the Property of Copyright (1774).An Address to the People of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs (1775).The History of England from the Revolution to the Present Time in a Series of Letters to a Friend. Volume I (1778).Treatise on the Immutability of Moral Truth (1783).Letters on Education with Observations on Religions and Metaphysical Subjects (1790).Observations on the Reflections of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, on the Revolution in France (1790). Notes References Further reading L. M. Donnelly, 'The celebrated Mrs Macaulay', William and Mary Quarterly, 6 (1949), pp. 173–207. Bridget Hill and Christopher Hill, 'Catharine Macaulay's History and her "Catalogue of tracts"', Seventeenth Century, 8 (1993), pp. 269–85. T. P. Peardon, The Transition in Historical Writing'' (1933). External links Catherine Macaulay – Sheroes of History 1731 births 1791 deaths People from Wye, Kent People from Binfield Feminism and history English women philosophers English philosophers 18th-century British philosophers 18th-century English historians