In a writing career that covered the first fifty years of the twentieth century, Rose Macaulay produced twenty-three novels, six books of criticism, four books of travel and history and two collections of poetry, as well as a huge correspondence with her friends, figures such as Elizabeth Bowen, Virgina Woolf, EM Forster and TS Eliot.
She gave the impression of being sexually uninterested in men ('she looked like a eunuch', said catty Virginia Woolf who did not take kindly to the fact that Rose's books were more popular than hers), while for a quarter of a century she was passionately in love with a married man. The relationship ended only with his death in 1942.
A great comic writer who excelled at satire, she was also an innovator and experimenter and a sharp and invigorating commentator on matters of popular and public interest.
- 'LeFanu makes a good case for a re-evaluation of Macaulay as a writer as well as presenting us with some important new material' - LITERARY REVIEW
- 'This biography intrigues as a record of a woman's life on the cusp between tradition and freedom' - FINANCIAL TIMES
- 'Sarah LeFanu uncovers the life in an admirably calm and orderly fashion' - THE SPECTATOR
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Published 02/12/2004
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