Rose Macaulay

Melissa Sullivan (Rosemont)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

Born 1 Aug 1881
Died 30 Oct 1958
Activity 1906-1956

Places

Born in England
Active in England; Italy

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Journalist
Travel writer

Resources

Macaulay's Works

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Rose Macaulay was one of the wittiest and most astute writers in interwar Britain, and is known best for her novels, journalism, and essays on modernity, literary London, and women’s lives during the 1920s. Her career as a novelist spanned from 1906 through to 1956; she published with Collins, the Hogarth Press,

The Spectator

, and

Time and Tide

, among other publishing houses and periodicals; she was regularly featured on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s; and, in 1957, she was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for her contributions to literature. With such a wide and varied career, she moved in a number of literary circles, often meeting with Rosamond Lehmann, Sylvia Lynd, Victor Gollancz, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and Rupert Brooke, to name just a few literary friends and…

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Citation: Sullivan, Melissa. "Rose Macaulay". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 March 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12080, accessed 22 November 2024.]