EJ
attended Oxford High School
. It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton
, then The...
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
45, 61
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Education
Rose Macaulay
RM
left Oxford High School for Girls
shortly before she was eighteen, having taken the external Oxford and Cambridge Higher Certificate Local Examination.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
45, 61
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Literary responses
Rose Macaulay
Lucy Soulsby
, RM
's former headmistress at Oxford High School for Girls
, wrote enthustiastically to Macaulay's publisher, John Murray: I believe you have hit on a new writer which I very seldom think...
politics
Ethel M. Arnold
EA was a lifelong supporter of votes for women from her earliest days at Oxford High School for Girls
. In an essay she wrote as a fifteen-year-old for the Oxford High School Magazine...