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Three Days
Rose Macaulay
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Dangerous Ages
Rose Macaulay
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Dangerous Ages (Paperback)
Rose Macaulay; Afterword by Simon Thomas
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R318
R264
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Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three
generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced
at each of those stages in life. The book opens with Neville
celebrating her 43rd birthday and contemplating middle age now that
her children are grown. Her mother, in her sixties, seeks answers
to her melancholy in Freudianism. Her sister, Nan, 33, a writer who
has hitherto led a single and carefree life in London, experiences
the loss of love and with it her plan for the future. And Neville's
principled daughter Gerda, who is determined not to follow her
mother's generation into the institute of marriage, finds herself
at an impasse with the man she loves.
Reproduced ieith permission from Arcktw Mas PALACIO DEL MARQUES DE
DOS AQUAS, VALENCIA FROM THE PYRENEES TO PORTUGAL BY ROSE MACAULAY
HAMISH HAMILTON LONDON First published in Great Britain, April 1949
by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. Second Impression, May ip p Third
Impression, October 1949 Printed in Great Britain by Butler Tanner
Ltd, , Frome and London The curved gulfs, the promontories, the
shore stretching along the sea, the hills standing close above it,
the high towns lapped by the waves . . . the sea walls guarding the
ports, the way the marshes and the lakes lie, and the high wild
mountains rise. . . . RUFUS FESTUS AVIENUS late 4th century II faut
visiter les pays dans leur saison violente, 1 Espagne en etd, la
Russie en hiver. THEOPHILE GAUTIER 1845 Being entered Spaine, he
must take heed o Posting in that hot Country in the Summer time,
for it may stirre the masse of bloud too much. JAMES HOWELL 1642
The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the
Mediterranean. SAMUEL JOHNSON 1776 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I SHOULD like
very gratefully to thank Dr. J. M. Batista i Roca, of Barcelona and
Cambridge, for Hs kindness in looking through and making
suggestions for the bettering of some of the Cata-Ionian section of
this book, and also for giving me introductions in Barcelona. I am
grateful to Mr. Bernard Bevan, lately Infor mation Officer of the
British Consulate-General in Barcelona, for much information,
kindness and help to Miss Massey, of the same department, for
valuable assistance in Barcelona to Mr. W. C. E. F. Leverkus,
British Vice-Consul at Cartagena, for his information and advice to
the Patronato Nacional del Turismo at Madrid and the Secretariado
Nacional da Informacao atLisbon for very kindly supplying me with
photographs to Senor Antonio Marquet of Barcelona, and the
Instituto Espanol in London, for also helping me with these to Mr.
R. B. Neumegen, of Messrs. Offley, Forrester Co., for information
about sherry at Jerez to Professor Edgar Prestage for lending me
the most recent researches of Portuguese scholars into Prince Henry
the Navi gators towns on Capes Sagres and St. Vincent, and to
Professor Rhys Carpenter, of Bryn Mawr, for sending me his
delightful study, The Greeks in Spain. ROSE MACAULAY CONTENTS Page
Introductory I CATALONIAN SHORE 9 VALENCIAN SHORE So MURCIAN SHORE
114 ANDALUCIAN SHORE 123 ALGARVE SHORE 184 Index 199 ILLUSTRATIONS
PAIACIO DEL MARQUES DE Dos AGUAS, VALENCIA Frontispiece Facing page
SAN PERE DE RODA 12 AMPURIAS 13 GERONA 28 ESCALERA DE SANTO
DOMINGO, GERONA 29 CALELLA, COSTA BRAVA 34 COSTA BRAVA 35 TOSSA DE
MAR 42 UNFINISHED CHURCH OF THE SAGRADA FAMILIA, BARCELONA 43 SANTA
MARIA, TARRASA 60 CATHEDRAL, TARRAGONA 61 SAGUNTO, CASTLE AND
AMPHITHEATRE 86 PE ISCOLA 87 DENIA, PORT AND CASTLE 104 PE ON DE
IFACH, CALPE 105 ALICANTE HARBOUR 108 MOJACAR 109 ORIHUELA 112 CASA
SE ORIAL, LORCA 113 CAVE DWELLINGS, GUADIX 126 GRANADA 127
SACRISTIA OF THE CARTUJA, GRANADA 132 TOCADOR DE LA REINA,
ALHAMBRA, GRANADA 133 ARCO ROMANO, RONDA 144 TARIFA 145
'Oh God, one should not go to parties, Daisy sighed, sinking in wan
defeat in the melancholy dawn. One should not mingle with others;
one should keep oneself to oneself...' Lying awake after a hotel
party on holiday in the Mediterranean, Daisy Simpson reflects on
her lacklustre social performance and muses on the impression her
confident and graceful half-sister Daphne may have made on the
other guests. What is it that makes Daphne, Daphne and Daisy,
Daisy? And which of the two will attract the attentions of one of
their hosts, Raymond, whom they have both fallen for? Returning to
London, Daisy's life is strained by the efforts of presenting the
right elements of her personality to the right people, resulting in
embarrassments, difficulties and deceits as she navigates her
relationships and social standing. Rose Macaulay's novel, first
published in 1928, offers a sharp and witty commentary on how we
twist our identities to fit, delivered in an intelligent and
innovative style.
What Not is Rose Macaulay's speculative novel of post-First World
War eugenics and newspaper manipulation that anticipated Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World by 14 years. Published in 1918, it was
hastily withdrawn due to a number of potentially libellous pages,
and was reissued in 1919. But by then it was quickly overshadowed
by Macaulay's next two novels, and never gained the attention it
deserved. What Not is a lost classic of feminist wit and protest at
social engineering, now republished with the suppressed pages
reinstated. Kitty Grammont and Nicholas Chester are in love, but
Kitty is certified as an A for breeding purposes, while politically
ambitious Chester has been uncertificated, and may not marry. But
why? There's nothing apparently wrong with him, he is admired in
his field, and is charming and decisive. Although Kitty wields
power as a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Brains, which
makes these classifications, she does not have the freedom to marry
who she wants. They ignore the restrictions, and carry on a
discreet affair. But it isn't discreet enough for the media: the
popular press, determined to smash the brutal regime of the
Ministry of Brains, has found out about Kitty and Chester, and
scents an opportunity for a scandalous exposure. The introduction
is by Sarah Lonsdale, senior lecturer in journalism at City
University London.
This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip
to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women
through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst
Laurie's only object is pleasure.
In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist,
reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the
'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately
interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal
Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very
short) about the things she enjoyed most in life. Her subjects
include: Bed (Getting Into It) Booksellers Catalogues Christmas
Morning Driving a Car Flattery Heresies Not Going to Parties
Shopping Abroad Writing While each essay can be read on its own as
a short dose of delicious writing, the collection is also an
autobiographical selection, revealing glimpses of Rose's own life,
and making us laugh helplessly with her inimitable humour.
All Rose Macaulay's anti-war writing, collected together in one
fascinating and thought-provoking volume. Her novel Non-Combatants
and Others (1916) is a classic of pacifist writing, and was one of
the first novels to be written and published during the First World
War that set out the moral and ideological arguments against war.
It's scathing and heart-breaking, yet finds a way for pacifists to
work for an end to conflict. Her journalism for The Spectator, Time
& Tide, The Listener and other magazines from the mid-1930s to
the end of the Second World War, details the rise of fascism and
the civilian response to the impending war. Witty, furious and
despairing in turn, these forgotten magazine columns reveal new
insights into how people find war and its tyrannies creeping up on
them. These are supported by Macaulay's two inter-war essays on
pacifism,`Apeing the Barbarians' and `Moral Indignation'.
Macaulay's only wartime short story, `Miss Anstruther's Letters',
is a devastating account of the loss of her flat and all her
possessions in the Blitz. But more desperate a loss than her books
were the letters from her secret lover, who had just died. The
Introduction is by Jessica Gildersleeve of the University of
Southern Queensland. The cover illustration, `Peace Angel', is by
the Norwegian caricaturist Olaf Gulbransson, published in the
German satirical magazine Simplicissimus in 1917.
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Potterism (Paperback)
Rose Macaulay
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R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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Rose Macaulay's 1920 satire on British journalism and the newspaper
industry will be back in print in the UK for the first time in
seventy years. It will be published alongside a new collection of
her pacifist writing from 1916 to 1945, Non-Combatants and Others:
Writings Against War (ISBN 9781912766307). Potterism is about the
Potter newspaper empire, and the ways in which journalists
struggled to balance the truth and what would sell, during the
First World War and into the 1920s. When Jane and Johnny Potter are
at Oxford they learn to despise their father's popular newspapers,
though they still end up working for the family business. But Jane
is greedy, and wants more than society will let her have. Mrs
Potter is a well-known romantic novelist, whose cheap novelettes
appear in the shop-girls' magazines. She has become unable to
distinguish fact from fiction, and her success gives her an
unhealthy estimation of her own influence. When she visits a medium
to try to find the truth about the murder of her son-in-law, she
wreaks terrible damage. Arthur Gideon works for Mr Potter as an
editor. He respects his employer's honesty while he despises the
populist newspapers he has to produce. His turbulent campaigning
spirit, and his furious resistance to anti-Semitic attacks, make
him unpopular, and becomes an unwitting target of malice.
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The World My Wilderness (Paperback)
Rose Macaulay; Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald
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R295
R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
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It is 1946 and the people of France and England are facing the
aftermath of the war. Banished by her beautiful, indolent mother to
England, Barbary Deniston is thrown into the care of her
distinguished father and conventional stepmother. Having grown up
in the sunshine of Provence, allowed to run wild with the Maquis,
experienced collaboration, betrayal and death, Barbary finds it
hard to adjust to the drab austerity of postwar London life.
Confused and unhappy, she discovers one day the flowering wastes
around St Paul's. Here, in the bombed heart of London, she finds an
echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the
wilderness within herself.
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