Emilie Rose Macaulay was a writer whose work "adorns our century." Her early novels are filled with memories of Italy, where she spent part of her childhood. She began her writing career, which spanned fifty years, in England and soon immersed herself in London's literary life. Her style is distinctive and her work unique, offering readers a remarkable literary experience.
Set in the 19th century, this charming novel follows the lives of the residents of Abbots Verney, a quiet English village. Through the eyes of various characters, including the rector, the doctor, and the squire, we witness the joys and sorrows of daily life in a small community. With its vivid characters, gentle humor, and subtle social commentary, this book is a timeless classic of English literature.
From the author of the beloved novel The Towers of Trebizond, a book about Portugal that is part travel-ogue, part history and wholly personal.
The Lee Shore is an important historical work that has been preserved for future generations through modern reformatting and design. The text has been retyped and is presented in a clear, readable format, ensuring that it remains accessible and engaging for contemporary readers. This effort highlights the book's significance and commitment to maintaining its legacy.
Set against the backdrop of a journey through Turkey, the narrative explores the spiritual evolution of a small Anglo-Catholic group traveling by camel. The protagonist's experiences mirror the author's own evolving beliefs, making it a profound spiritual autobiography. Influenced by Virginia Woolf, Macaulay's literary contributions extend beyond novels to include biographies and travelogues, showcasing her diverse talents. Her body of work includes notable titles like Abbots Verney, The Lee Shore, and The World My Wilderness, highlighting her significant impact on English literature.
Rose Macaulay's novel, first published in 1928, offers a sharp and witty commentary on how we twist our identities to fit, delivered in an intelligent and innovative style.
Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things she enjoyed most in life. Her subjects include: - Bed (Getting Into It) - Booksellers Catalogues - Christmas Morning - Driving a Car - Flattery - Heresies - Not Going to Parties - Shopping Abroad - Writing While each essay can be read on its own as a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose's own life, and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.
Potterism is about the Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists struggled to balance the truth and what would sell, during the First World War and into the 1920s. When Jane and Johnny Potter are at Oxford they learn to despise their father's popular newspapers, though they still end up working for the family business.
An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England. In a near-future England, a new government entity—the Ministry of Brains—attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares author Rose Macaulay’s own ambivalent attitude, gets involved in the Ministry’s propaganda efforts, which the novel details with an entertaining thoroughness. (The alphabetical caste system dreamed up by Macaulay for her nightmare world would directly influence Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopia Brave New World.) But when Kitty falls in love with the Minister for Brains, a man whose genetic shortcomings make a union with her impossible, their illicit affair threatens to topple the government. Because it ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, the planned 1918 publication of What Not was delayed until after the end of World War I.
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