English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies

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Dame Rose Macaulay

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Dame Rose Macaulay , 1889?–1958, English author. Remembered primarily for her novels satirizing middle-class life, she first achieved fame with Potterism (1920). Her subsequent novels include Told by an Idiot (1923), Staying with Relations (1930), The World My Wilderness (1950), and The Towers of Trebizond (1956). She also wrote two volumes of verse, several books on travel, and studies of Milton (1934) and E. M. Forster (1938). She was named a Dame of the British Empire in 1958.

Bibliography: See biography by A. R. Benson (1970).

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Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose

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Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose (1881–1958), novelist, essayist, and travel writer, whose many works include Potterism (1920), They were Defeated (1932), both fiction, and Pleasures of Ruins (1953). Her best-known novels, The World my Wilderness (1950) and The Towers of Trebizond (1956), appeared after a decade in which she wrote no fiction, and followed her return to the Anglican faith.

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