Macaulay, Dame Rose

Macaulay, Dame Rose

▪ British author
born , Aug. 1, 1881, Rugby, Warwickshire, Eng.
died Oct. 30, 1958, London

      author of novels and travel books characterized by intelligence, wit, and lively scholarship.

      Daughter of a university instructor, she grew up in an intellectually stimulating and liberal-minded home environment. She first attracted attention as a social satirist with a series of novels, Potterism (1920), Dangerous Ages (1921), Told by an Idiot (1923), Orphan Island (1924), Crewe Train (1926), and Keeping Up Appearances (1928). After 1930 she wrote fewer novels, though the fiction she did produce, such as Going Abroad (1934), The World My Wilderness (1950), and The Towers of Trebizond (1956), conformed to a high standard.

      Some Religious Elements in English Literature (1931) and They Were Defeated (1932), a study of the poet Robert Herrick, were among her best works of literary criticism. In addition to travel books, They Went to Portugal (1946) and Fabled Shore (1949), she produced three volumes of verse. She was created Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1958.

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