The Critic of Manchester

[kalypso_v]

I am still dreadfully behind with everything, and have not yet posted a proper entry commemorating my grandfather's 157th birthday on May 7. But today I paid a brief visit to Didsbury Library, celebrating its centenary, and found that one of the books sent down from the Central Library for the occasion was a bound volume of a weekly magazine on

Comments

[vjezkova]

Wow, this is great to look for your grandfather´s history - and find a lot. Good work and he would be pleased.

[marysutherland]

I have access (via my university) to the Guardian fulltext backfile from 1821 onwards and that has a lot of book and theatre reviews by "A N M" in it, so it's worth seeing if either Manchester Central Library or Manchester University Library also has such access: the database is ProQuest Historical Newspapers. If so you could go along and browse a selection. I couldn't find the specific quote you mentioned, but there are several reviews of Macbeth by him in the database.