Rose Macaulay
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Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August, 1881 - 30 October, 1958), affectionately known as Emilie (her actual first name), was an English novelist. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel.
The novels include Abbots Verney (1906), The Lee Shore (1920), Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), Told by an Idiot (1923), And No Man's Wit (1940), and The Towers of Trebizond (1956).
- Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
- Attended Oxford High School for Girls.
- Studied Modern History at Somerville College, Oxford.
- During World War I, worked in the British Propaganda Department, after some time as a nurse and then as a civil servant in the War Office.
- Received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956.
- Pursued a romantic affair with Gerald O'Donovan, a writer and former Jesuit priest, from 1918 until his death in 1942.
- Created Dame of the British Empire (DBE) in 1958, shortly before her death at age 77.
Reviewers have described Macaulay as "one of the few significant English novelists of the twentieth century to identify herself as a Christian and to use Christian themes in her writing." Rose Macaulay was never a simple believer in "mere Christianity," however, and her writings reveal a more complex, mystical sense of the divine. During the British Empire's mid century peak she may be counted among such writers as C. S. Lewis, Austin Farrer, and Dorothy L. Sayers (the last a close friend of Macaulay's), whose writings were more consistently orthodox in tone.
Memorable quote
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
From The Towers of Trebizond.
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