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Rose Macaulay

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born

August 01, 1881 in Rugby, The United Kingdom

died

October 30, 1958

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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Emilie Rose Macaulay, whom Elizabeth Bowen called "one of the few writers of whom it may be said, she adorns our century," was born at Rugby, where her father was an assistant master. Descended on both sides from a long line of clerical ancestors, she felt Anglicanism was in her blood. Much of her childhood was spent in Varazze, near Genoa, and memories of Italy fill the early novels. The family returned to England in 1894 and settled in Oxford. She read history at Somerville, and on coming down lived with her family first in Wales, then near Cambridge, where her father had been appointed a lecturer in English. There she began a writing career which was to span fifty years with the publication of her first novel, Abbots Verney, in 1906. Whe...more

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Books by Rose Macaulay

Average rating: 3.71 · 404 ratings · 95 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay, Jan Morris (Introduction) 3.79 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1956 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The World My Wilderness 3.59 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1950 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Crewe Train 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1926 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Told By An Idiot 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1923 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Personal Pleasures 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1936 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Staying with Relations 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Non Combatants And Others 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1916 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Pleasure of ruins 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1953 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Life Among the English 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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Quotes by Rose Macaulay

“So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.”
― Rose Macaulay

tags: annoyance , conversation , croquet , etiquette , sports

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“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.”
― Rose Macaulay

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“Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.”
― Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond

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