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Ahead of Her Time
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THE MUSIC AT LONG VERNEY
Twenty Stories
By Sylvia Townsend Warner
Counterpoint. 220 pp. $24
THE ELEMENT OF LAVISHNESS
Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978
Edited by Michael Steinman
Counterpoint. 340 pp. $27.50
Sylvia Townsend Warner was never a marquee name. Rather, this
quintessentially English writer was one of those splendid upper
handmaidens of authordom: She lived, she loved, she wrote, and to her
many admirers that was enough.
Born in 1893, she grew up an only child in the environs of the
great public school, Harrow, where her father taught history; Sylvia ...
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A strong case for revival
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ROSE MACAULAY by Sarah LeFanu Virago, L20, pp...plenty of reasons for being interested in Dame Rose Macaulay, a woman who always seems so familiar...and orderly fashion, from Emilie Rose Macaulay's birth on 1 August, 1881, as the...
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...the time they have worked it out, I have gone." -- Dame Shirley Bassey. "Don't be nervous. There's only...to kill time for those who like it better dead." -- Dame Rose Macaulay. "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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PRIVATE LIVES OF PUBLIC FIGURES CAUSE CONFLICT
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...delighted in "Same Time Next Year." All those stories romanticized the same thing -adultery. British novelist Dame Rose Macaulay summarized our confusion when she wrote 30 years ago, "Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Rhodes James, scholar, author and editor, 1862; Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, author, 1881; Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor, 1883...1944; in Warsaw, the people under "General Bor" rose against the Germans, 1944; Dahomey became independent...
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Have you read?: readers recommend their favorite books.(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Bookmarks
; ...fascinating anecdotal history of the grand old bridge. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PERSONAL PLEASURES By Rose Macaulay This 20th-century writer and dame wrote mostly novels about the young and the spoiled. This collection of essays, however, is a...
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Faith in a controlled environment
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; In one of her letters, Rose Macaulay, novelist and High Church dame of the mid-20th century, admits to being a "blue...clock and then have a sunrise service. The unruly sun rose at 6.25 and that was that. Christian services, with...
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AAZ of the Edinburgh Festival* (*and there's even a real one for X! )
Newspaper article from: Evening Times
; ...career. She was nominated for a Rose d'Or award alongside the Catherine...Gardens, Sept 2. G is for Dame Evelyn Glennie - The deaf...15, 17-27. M is for Fred MacAulay - The Scots funnyman returns...s busy - he's also doing a MacAulay & Co radio show at the Spiegel...
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Final farewell to Jacko, the king of pop ; Mother overwhelmed with grief at funeral serviceElizabeth Taylor attends Michael Jackson's funeral service held at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park; music producer Quincy Jones; singer's son Prince Michael
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph
; ...guests including 77- year-old Dame Elizabeth Taylor waited in...attendance were former child actor Macaulay Culkin and his girlfriend...displays of white lilies and roses. Some family members wore...s sister La Toya; actor Macaulay Culkin, a close friend of...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Boys basketball.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; ...4-5 30, Wilde 1 4-4 6, Macaulay 3 3-3 10, Frericks 3 1...CLS: McKenna, Olszewski, Macaulay; B: Cleore, Little, Labedzki...16-3 49 2. Quincy Notre Dame (3) 16-0 48 3. Richwoods...5 2, Mangers 1 0-0 2, Rose 3 1-2 7, Galvan 2 0-0 4...
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Fogies. (short story)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...heavy-metal crooner Axl Rose. Careful to be on his best behavior, Rose left his no-longervery...Fox network program AxI Rose's Celebrity Roasts and...Seagal and Kelly LeBrock. Macaulay Culkin amusingly recalled...the choice of the grande dame of Hollywood, the beloved...
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