Some religious elements in English literature

by Rose Macaulay

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Hardcover

First published December 31, 1972

About the 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, in 1906. When her sixth novel, The Lee Shore (1912), won a literary prize, a gift from her uncle allowed her to rent a tiny flat in London, and she plunged happily into London literary life.

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Reviews

[Graychin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty little book, published in 1931 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press. It presents a collection of lectures delivered by Rose Macaulay on, as the title threatens, religious elements in English literature down the ages. The book is rather too small and the topic rather too big for any kind of comprehensive survey, but persons already fond of Rose Macaulay or with a particular affection for the English literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (Macaulay’s own favorite periods), will find it a treat. If, that is, they can find it at all. This book is decades out of print. I got lucky one day at the local used bookshop and found it hiding on the shelf next to a history of pantomime.