Rose Macaulay: A Biography

In a writing career that covered the first fifty years of the twentieth century, Rose Macaulay produced twenty-three novels, six books of criticism, four books of travel and history and two collections of poetry, as well as a large correspondence. Her friends included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Virginia Woolf, E M Forster, Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen.

She gave the impression of being sexually uninterested in men (she looked like a eunuch, said Virginia Woolf, who did not take kindly to Rose’s novels being more popular than her own), while for a quarter of a century she was passionately involved with a married man.

A great comic writer who excelled at satire, she was also a literary innovator and experimenter, and a sharp and invigorating commentator on matters of popular and public interest.

This new eBook edition includes the ‘discursive, detailed, original’ endnotes (Independent) properly referenced for the first time and in an easy-to-use format.