Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) was born at Rugby where her father was an assistant master, but much of her childhood was spent in Varazze, near Genoa. She read History at Somerville, Oxford. Her writing career spanned fifty years, beginning in 1906 with the publication of her novel Abbots Verney. When her sixth novel, The Lee Shore (1912), won a prize of 600, she moved to London and plunged happily into literary life. A member of the Bloomsbury group, elected fellow of the Royal Society of...
