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Rose Macaulay
author profile
born
August 01, 1881
died
October 30, 1958
gender
female
place of birth
Rugby, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
about this author
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, i...more
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The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay avg rating 3.67 — 82 ratings — published 1956 11 editions |
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The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 1968 2 editions |
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Personal Pleasures by Rose Macaulay avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 1968 6 editions |
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Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1965 4 editions |
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Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 1975 5 editions |
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Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins by Rose Macaulay avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1977 2 editions |
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Life Among the English by Rose Macaulay avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1996 |
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Non-combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1916 2 editions |
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Orphan Island by Rose Macaulay avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1971 2 editions |
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Potterism, A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Rose Macaulay avg rating 1.00 — 1 rating — published 2004 13 editions |
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"...when the years have all passed, there will gape the uncomfortable and unpredictable dark void of death, and into this I shall at last fall headlong, down and down and down, and the prospect of that fall, that uprooting, that rending apart of body and spirit, that taking off into so blank an unknown, drowns me in mortal fear and mortal grief. After all, life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and of love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it, we shall not have this life again."
— Rose Macaulay (The Towers of Trebizond)
— Rose Macaulay (The Towers of Trebizond)
"'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)
— Rose Macaulay (The Towers of Trebizond)
"Words, those precious gems of queer shape and gay colours, sharp angles and soft contours, shades of meaning laid one over the other down history, so that for those far back one must delve among the lost and lovely litter that strews the centuries. They arrange themselves in the most elegant odd patterns; the sound the strangest sweet euphonious notes; they flute and sing and taber, and disappear, like apparitions, with a curious perfume and a most melodious twang."
— Rose Macaulay (Personal Pleasures)
— Rose Macaulay (Personal Pleasures)
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