Rose Macaulay Quotes


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.


Citations

Macaulay, Rose. Personal Pleasures. Macmillan, 1936.

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Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay
  • Born: August 1, 1881
  • Died: October 30, 1958
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was 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.