Dearest Jean : Rose Macaulay's letters to a cousin
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Dearest Jean : Rose Macaulay's letters to a cousin
Manchester University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliography and index
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These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century, Smith a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an Anglican nun before converting to Roman Catholicism. The letters throw fascinating and often amusing light not only on the writer’s private life, unconventional character, and varied career, but also on the lively literary and social circles in which she moved. They are essential reading for all interested in British literary culture and women’s writing. -- .
Table of Contents
List Of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
I. Rose Macaulay: The First Half Of Her Life
1. The Daughter Who Was Not A Boy. (1881-1894)
2. Growing Wings. (1894-1903)
3. The Valley Captive. (1903-1906)
4. The Secret River. (1906-1914)
5. War And Love. (1914-1919)
II. Jean Smith
1. The Consul’s Daughter. (1891-1911)
2. Cambridge. (1911-1915)
3. Munitions And Sugar. (1916-1919)
4. Helicon And The Isis. (1919-1926)
5. Canterbury Or Rome? (1926-1938)
6. War, Duty, And Darkness. (1939-1960)
7. “Lead, Kindly Light”. (1961-1979)
The Letters
Appendices
I. Rose Macaulay’s Birth And First Weeks
II. “Ash Wednesday 1941”
Bibliography
I. Works By Rose Macaulay
II. Books About Rose Macaulay
Key To First Names
Family Trees
I. The Family Of Rose Macaulay
II. The Family Of Jean Smith
Index -- .
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