Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay DBEwas an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay’s novels were partly-influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 August 1881
freedom hot austerity
A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.
cooking culture news
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.
reading fiction taxation
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
sleep choices done
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.
believe interesting should
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
nursing differences age
Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.
animal aunt climbing
Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
family passion life-is-like
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.
relationship men views
Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.
strange accepted strangeness
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
light years sometimes
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
sister brother sibling
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.
time book aging
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
sports opportunity games
So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.