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Dearest Jean Martin Smith

Dearest Jean By Martin Smith

Dearest Jean by Martin Smith


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Summary

These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century, Smith a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an Anglican nun before converting to Roman Catholicism. T

Dearest Jean Summary

Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulays Letters to a Cousin by Martin Smith

These lively and candid letters from Rose Macaulay to her first cousin Jean Smith are previously unknown. Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century, Smith a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an Anglican nun before converting to Roman Catholicism. The letters throw fascinating and often amusing light not only on the writers private life, unconventional character, and varied career, but also on the lively literary and social circles in which she moved. They are essential reading for all interested in British literary culture and womens writing.

Dearest Jean Reviews

'A valuable addition to our knowledge of Macaulay.'
The Times Literary Supplement

'Sparkles with wit highly recommended.'
English Studies

'Superbly edited.'
The Tablet

'These "new" letters illuminate the writers life and career, and the literary and social scene, especially in the years that followed the First World War.'
Sir Simon Jenkins

'Offers fascinating insights into the 20th-century cultural scene.'
Choice

'Full of previously buried treasure.'
A.N. Wilson

'Wonderfully expansive notes decorate the letters like illuminated miniatures.'
Church Times

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About Martin Smith

Martin Ferguson Smith is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Durham University

Table of Contents

List Of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Editors Preface
Editors Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Rose Macaulay: The First Half Of Her Life
1. The Daughter Who Was Not A Boy. (1881-1894)
2. Growing Wings. (1894-1903)
3. The Valley Captive. (1903-1906)
4. The Secret River. (1906-1914)
5. War And Love. (1914-1919)
II. Jean Smith
1. The Consuls Daughter. (1891-1911)
2. Cambridge. (1911-1915)
3. Munitions And Sugar. (1916-1919)
4. Helicon And The Isis. (1919-1926)
5. Canterbury Or Rome? (1926-1938)
6. War, Duty, And Darkness. (1939-1960)
7. Lead, Kindly Light. (1961-1979)
The Letters
Appendices
I. Rose Macaulays Birth And First Weeks
II. Ash Wednesday 1941
Bibliography
I. Works By Rose Macaulay
II. Books About Rose Macaulay
Key To First Names
Family Trees
I. The Family Of Rose Macaulay
II. The Family Of Jean Smith
Index

Additional information

GOR012854790
9781526123008
1526123002
Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulays Letters to a Cousin by Martin Smith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2017-08-14
360
N/A
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