Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)
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- Macaulay, Emilie Rose
- Geburtstag
- 1881-08-01
- Todestag
- 1958-10-30
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- London, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Varezze, Italy
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Great Shelford, England, UK - Ausbildung
- University of Oxford(Somerville College)
Oxford High School for Girls - Berufe
- novelist
travel writer
literary critic - Beziehungen
- Bowen, Elizabeth (friend)
Conybeare, William John (grandfather) - Organisationen
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- Order of the British Empire (Dame Commander, 1958)
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- Caroline Dawnay (PFD)
- Kurzbiographie
- Emilie Rose Macaulay was one of six children of a classical scholar at Cambridge. She lived near Genoa, Italy during her childhood, and finished her education at home in England in Oxford. Rose Macaulay never married and devoted her life to her writing. She had a secret affair from about 1918 to 1942 with Gerald O'Donovan, a former priest, himself a novelist. She travelled extensively and some of her popular works inspired by her trips include The Pleasure of Ruins (1953). She was awarded the DBE shortly before her death in 1958. Her private correspondence was published posthumously in the trilogy Letters to a Friend (1961), Last Letters to a Friend (1962) and Letters to a Sister (1964).
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Besides the Spanish names, most of what Macaulay was talking about didn’t appeal to me. This book is an inventory of present places that once were Greek and Roman. It is a long list of Greek and Roman place names, ending up with the dreaded Spanish names. The rest of the commentary was of buildings – architectural and decorative styles. These also read like lists. There was a little bit about the people, but very little. When she was in Catalunya, I found the reading vaguely (but not very) interesting. But once she passed down into Valencia and Murcia, I was no longer interested. These are places I have never been and even if I intended to go, what she had to say had nothing to say to me. I don’t care what the Greeks and Romans called these places.
I might have carried on anyway, because I did so like the other book of hers that I’ve read (Towers of Trebizond), but my basic antipathy for Spain came through. I like Catalunya (it is a mixed emotional thing for me, part love, part betrayal) but I dislike Spain. So a little after half way through, I quit. If I had kept at it, it could have taken me a year to get to the end (whenever I picked the book up I wanted to put it back down), and life is too short for that.
It isn't a bad book, Macaulay is very well educated and intelligent and writes well, just that I didn't like it.
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