Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)
Autore di The Towers of Trebizond
Sull'Autore
Opere di Rose Macaulay
Daisy and Daphne 4 copie
The Secret River 3 copie
The Valley Captives 2 copie
Rose Macaulay : [Poems] 2 copie
Book-Building after a Blitz 2 copie
Macaulay, Rose (Dame) Archive 1 copia
Miss Anstruther's Letters 1 copia
Simfonije u kamenu 1 copia
Whitewash and The Empty Berth 1 copia
Opere correlate
Ladies of Horror: Two Centuries of Supernatural Stories by the Gentle Sex (1971) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Strange relics : stories of archaeology and the supernatural, 1895-1954 (2022) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
Modern books and writers : the catalogue of an exhibition held at Seven Albemarle Street, April to September 1951 (1951) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Macaulay, Emilie Rose
- Data di nascita
- 1881-08-01
- Data di morte
- 1958-10-30
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Varezze, Italy
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Great Shelford, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Oxford(Somerville College)
Oxford High School for Girls - Attività lavorative
- novelist
travel writer
literary critic - Relazioni
- Bowen, Elizabeth (friend)
Conybeare, William John (grandfather) - Organizzazioni
- Peace Pledge Union
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander, 1958)
- Agente
- Caroline Dawnay (PFD)
- Breve biografia
- Emilie Rose Macaulay was one of six children of a classical scholar at Cambridge. She lived near Genoa, Italy during her childhood, and finished her education at home in England in Oxford. Rose Macaulay never married and devoted her life to her writing. She had a secret affair from about 1918 to 1942 with Gerald O'Donovan, a former priest, himself a novelist. She travelled extensively and some of her popular works inspired by her trips include The Pleasure of Ruins (1953). She was awarded the DBE shortly before her death in 1958. Her private correspondence was published posthumously in the trilogy Letters to a Friend (1961), Last Letters to a Friend (1962) and Letters to a Sister (1964).
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Recensioni
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/what-not-a-prophetic-comedy-by-rose-macaulay/
It was written during the First World Ward and set very shortly after it, in a Britain where eugenics has been legislated into public policy, and the Ministry of Brains controls who people can marry so that war will become impossible once stupidity has been bred out of the population. There’s a good deal of satire here, and some good observation of what happens when popular support for a political initiative collapses after a strong start; but it’s also a sympathetic observation of human nature and human behaviour, trying to put society together again after the catastrophe of war. Macaulay’s take on global politics is a bit naïve, but she’s good on the human heart; and this slim book was clearly a source of inspiration for both 1984 and Brave New World.… (altro)
It was written during the First World Ward and set very shortly after it, in a Britain where eugenics has been legislated into public policy, and the Ministry of Brains controls who people can marry so that war will become impossible once stupidity has been bred out of the population. There’s a good deal of satire here, and some good observation of what happens when popular support for a political initiative collapses after a strong start; but it’s also a sympathetic observation of human nature and human behaviour, trying to put society together again after the catastrophe of war. Macaulay’s take on global politics is a bit naïve, but she’s good on the human heart; and this slim book was clearly a source of inspiration for both 1984 and Brave New World.… (altro)
A very enjoyable read.
I loved the long ponderous sentences and long never-ending lists, often ending with something/someone obscure.
Written in a very tongue in cheek style but with the underlying serious problem of the many waring religions and committing one’s life to Christ.
Aunt Dot, who was looking for a home for what she called "all those poor young unmarried fathers, ruined by maintenance," p11
Of course from one point of view she was right about the church, which grew so far, almost it once, from anything which can have been intended, and became so blood-stained and persecuting and cruel and war-like and made a small and trivial things so important, and tried to exclude everything not done in a certain way and by a certain people and stamped out heresies was such cruelty and rage. … p196… (altro)
I loved the long ponderous sentences and long never-ending lists, often ending with something/someone obscure.
Written in a very tongue in cheek style but with the underlying serious problem of the many waring religions and committing one’s life to Christ.
Aunt Dot, who was looking for a home for what she called "all those poor young unmarried fathers, ruined by maintenance," p11
Of course from one point of view she was right about the church, which grew so far, almost it once, from anything which can have been intended, and became so blood-stained and persecuting and cruel and war-like and made a small and trivial things so important, and tried to exclude everything not done in a certain way and by a certain people and stamped out heresies was such cruelty and rage. … p196… (altro)
Interesting and amusing essays commenting on all parts/walks of life:
Choosing a religion, General Elections, Traveling by Train…
“How shall we elect to spend the brief span of our days on the upper surface of this planet?”
Bernard Shaw, "it is a mistake to get married, but a much bigger mistake not to"
“Truly the human race finds it's pleasures in odd ways, and one of the oddest is the absorption of ideas from black marks imprinted on white paper.”
Choosing a religion, General Elections, Traveling by Train…
“How shall we elect to spend the brief span of our days on the upper surface of this planet?”
Bernard Shaw, "it is a mistake to get married, but a much bigger mistake not to"
“Truly the human race finds it's pleasures in odd ways, and one of the oddest is the absorption of ideas from black marks imprinted on white paper.”
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Nifty Fifties (1)
Women in War (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Backlisted (1)
Folio Society (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Read This Next (1)
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 80
- ISBN
- 211
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 15
Besides the Spanish names, most of what Macaulay was talking about didn’t appeal to me. This book is an inventory of present places that once were Greek and Roman. It is a long list of Greek and Roman place names, ending up with the dreaded Spanish names. The rest of the commentary was of buildings – architectural and decorative styles. These also read like lists. There was a little bit about the people, but very little. When she was in Catalunya, I found the reading vaguely (but not very) interesting. But once she passed down into Valencia and Murcia, I was no longer interested. These are places I have never been and even if I intended to go, what she had to say had nothing to say to me. I don’t care what the Greeks and Romans called these places.
I might have carried on anyway, because I did so like the other book of hers that I’ve read (Towers of Trebizond), but my basic antipathy for Spain came through. I like Catalunya (it is a mixed emotional thing for me, part love, part betrayal) but I dislike Spain. So a little after half way through, I quit. If I had kept at it, it could have taken me a year to get to the end (whenever I picked the book up I wanted to put it back down), and life is too short for that.
It isn't a bad book, Macaulay is very well educated and intelligent and writes well, just that I didn't like it.
… (altro)