Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rose Macaulay
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Standard Name: Macaulay, Rose
Birth Name: Emilie Rose Macaulay
RM
was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works of literary criticism. Several volumes of her personal letters have been printed. She made many appearances on the BBC
and published scores of articles. Valued perhaps chiefly for its satire and wit, her writing shows impressive political complexity and understanding, and her skill at characterisation is noteworthy. In her early works one may feel that her satire is defensive: that she uses mockery to hold off painful involvement. Her treatment of religious issues and characters demonstrates her long struggle with and engagement in established religion. She continually pokes fun at people heavily invested in causes or movements; but the choice of a cause is one of her favourite topics, sometimes handled with poignancy rather than burlesque.
GBS
gave a dinner-party at Quaglino's restaurant in London for sixty-four people, including a number of the famous (whom in relating this she calls plums), such as Elinor Glyn
and Rose Macaulay
.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
41-2
Friends, Associates
Noel Streatfeild
NS
shared her Elizabeth Street flat with another close friend, Margot Grey
, whom she met in 1948 and with whom she shared a dog (as she had previously during her adult life shared a...
JT
supplied an introduction to Rose Macaulay
's The Towers of Trebizond for a handsome edition published by the Folio Society
in 2005.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Intertextuality and Influence
Susan Tweedsmuir
She introduces these essays with a reminder from Rose Macaulay
that the Edwardians were a mixed lot . . . . merely a set of individuals, not to be lumped together under generalising adjectives.
Tweedsmuir, Susan. The Edwardian Lady. G. Duckworth.
prelims
Friends, Associates
Katharine Tynan
At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum
, his wife Mary Gunning Maguire
(later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens
Literary responses
Katharine Tynan
After Flower of Youth first appeared in The Spectator, KT
began receiving letters from mourners. In 1919 she wrote, I believe I have written better poems of the War, or as good, but nothing...
Usborne, Karen. "Elizabeth": The Author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Bodley Head.
275, 287, 290
Friends, Associates
Helen Waddell
Friends from HW
's time at Somerville
included Maude Clarke
, whom she had known as a child and whose Oxford position had been one of the incentives to go there, and archaelogist Helen Lorimer