Rose Macaulay
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
One of the most singular and intellectually formidable voices of twentieth-century British literature, Rose Macaulay led a life as rich in complexity and contradiction as the novels she produced — and Constance Babington Smith's authoritative biography at last renders that life in full. Drawing on personal letters, close friendships, and privileged access to private correspondence, this portrait chronicles Macaulay's journey from her unconventional upbringing to her emergence as a celebrated wit, satirist, and novelist whose sharp prose cut through the pretensions of English society with elegant precision. Babington Smith, herself a cousin of Macaulay, brings an intimate yet scrupulously rigorous sensibility to her subject, illuminating the spiritual crises, secret love affairs, and fierce intellectual passions that shaped one of the era's most distinctive literary minds. The biography presents Macaulay not merely as an author of sparkling comedies of manners, but as a woman who wrestled deeply with faith, loss, and the nature of civilisation itself — themes that resonate powerfully through works such as The Towers of Trebizond. For readers who have long admired Macaulay's dazzling surface, this biography uncovers the turbulent depths beneath it.
Author: Constance Babington Smith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Collins
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
One of the most singular and intellectually formidable voices of twentieth-century British literature, Rose Macaulay led a life as rich in complexity and contradiction as the novels she produced — and Constance Babington Smith's authoritative biography at last renders that life in full. Drawing on personal letters, close friendships, and privileged access to private correspondence, this portrait chronicles Macaulay's journey from her unconventional upbringing to her emergence as a celebrated wit, satirist, and novelist whose sharp prose cut through the pretensions of English society with elegant precision. Babington Smith, herself a cousin of Macaulay, brings an intimate yet scrupulously rigorous sensibility to her subject, illuminating the spiritual crises, secret love affairs, and fierce intellectual passions that shaped one of the era's most distinctive literary minds. The biography presents Macaulay not merely as an author of sparkling comedies of manners, but as a woman who wrestled deeply with faith, loss, and the nature of civilisation itself — themes that resonate powerfully through works such as The Towers of Trebizond. For readers who have long admired Macaulay's dazzling surface, this biography uncovers the turbulent depths beneath it.