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Rose Macaulay

I lived from 1881-1958. I was from England, and am in the English category.

Known to friends as Emilie, she was a novelist and poet. The Daughter of a university scholar and lecturer, 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, She is remembered primarily for her novels satirizing middle-class life.
works include:

"Abbots Verney" 1906,
"The Lee Shore" 1920,
"Potterism" 1920,
"Dangerous Ages" 1921,
"Told by an Idiot" 1923,
"And No Man's Wit" 1940,
"The Towers of Trebizond" 1956

Rose Macaulay was awarded the DBE shortly before her death in 1958.

My poetry

  • Picnic: July 1917
    We lay and ate the sweet hurt-berries
    In the bracken of Hurt Wood.
    63 lines, 1 comment
  • The Shadow
    There was a shadow on the moon; I saw it poise and tilt and go
    Its lonely way, and so I know that the blue velvet night will soon
    29 lines
  • Many Sisters to Many Brothers
      When we fought campaigns (in the long Christmas rains)
        With soldiers spread in troops on the floor,
    25 lines
  • The Devourers
      Cambridge town is a beleaguered city;
        For south and north, like a sea,
    28 lines

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