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Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying Life
Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things...
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Personal Pleasures is an anthology of 80 short essays (some of them very short) about the things the feminist critic and nivelist Rose Macaulay enjoyed most in life. The complete list consists of:
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: Handheld Classics
Published: 08/10/2021
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.28w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781912766505
About the Author
Macaulay, Rose: - Rose Macaulay was a leading British literary figure of the 20th century, crossing genres and forms, and was made a Dame for services to literature in 1958, a few months before her death. She was born in Rugby in 1881, and was the second daughter of a family of seven children, with whom she lived in Italy for seven years during her childhood. On returning to Britain as an adolescent, she went to school and later university in Oxford, where she was awarded the equivalent of a degree in history in 1903. When Macaulay left Oxford to rejoin her family in rural Wales, she began to publish poetry, and then novels. In 1906, two months before her first novel was published, the family moved to Great Shelford, a village south of Cambridge, where her father taught English literature at Trinity College. In 1912 Macaulay's sixth novel, The Lee Shore, won a Hodder & Stoughton literary prize of £600 (equivalent to over £50,000 or $70,000 in the present day), finally giving her financial independence. She moved to London in 1913. When the First World War broke out Macaulay volunteered as a VAD in a hospital for a few months but was much happier when she began working on the land. After nearly a year in the Women's Land Army Macaulay succeeded in her application for an office job. She published the first pacifist novel in Britain in 1916, Non-Combatants and Others. From January 1917 she worked in the War Office on cases of exemption from military service and conscientious objectors. When the war ended Macaulay began to publish prolifically as a professional woman of letters. Her second volume of poetry came out in 1919. She published twenty-two books between 1919 and 1939: only half of these were novels, but at least one, Potterism (1920) was a best-seller. Her two most well-known novels would appear after the Second World War, during which, at the age of sixty, she was a volunteer ambulance driver. The World My Wilderness (1950) and The Towers of Trebizond (1956) would bring her widespread fame at a level that her earlier novels had not achieved.MacDonald, Kate: - Kate Macdonald is a publisher and a literary historian. She has published a number of books, chapters and articles on twentieth-century publishing history and the book business. She is the editor of Rose Macaulay, Gender and Modernity, the first edited collection of essays on Macaulay, published by Routledge in 2018.
- Abroad
- Album
- Arm-Chair
- Astronomy
- Bakery in the Night
- Bathing
- 1 Off the Florida Keys
- 2 Off the Ligurian Coast
- 3 In the Cam
- Bed
- 1 Getting into it
- 2 Not getting out of it
- Believing
- Bird in the Box
- Book Auctions
- Booksellers' Catalogues
- Bulls
- Candlemas
- Canoeing
- Chasing Fireflies
- Christmas Morning
- Church-going
- 1. Anglican
- 2. Roman Catholic
- 3. Quaker
- 4. Unitarian
- Cinema
- Clothes
- Cows
- Departure of Visitors
- Disbelieving
- Doves in the Chimney
- Driving a Car
- Easter in the Woods
- Eating and Drinking
- Elephants in Bloomsbury
- Fastest on Earth
- Finishing a Book
- Fire Engines
- Flattery
- Flower Shop in the Night
- Flying
- Following the Fashion
- Fraternal
- Getting Rid
- Hatching Eggs
- Heresies
- Hot Bath
- Ignorance
- 1. Of one's neighbours
- 2. Of current literature
- 3. Of gossip
- 4. Of wickedness
- 5. Of one's pass-book
- Improving the Dictionary
- Listening In
- Logomachy
- Meals Out
- 1 On the roof
- 2 On the pavement
- New Year's Eve
- Not Going to Parties
- Parties
- Play-Going
- Pretty Creatures
- Reading
- Shopping Abroad
- Showing Off
- Solitude
- Sunday
- Taking Umbrage
- Talking about a New Car
- Telling Travellers' Tales
- Turtles in Hyde Park
- Walking
- Writing
Author: Rose Macaulay
Publisher: Handheld Classics
Published: 08/10/2021
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.28w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9781912766505
About the Author
Macaulay, Rose: - Rose Macaulay was a leading British literary figure of the 20th century, crossing genres and forms, and was made a Dame for services to literature in 1958, a few months before her death. She was born in Rugby in 1881, and was the second daughter of a family of seven children, with whom she lived in Italy for seven years during her childhood. On returning to Britain as an adolescent, she went to school and later university in Oxford, where she was awarded the equivalent of a degree in history in 1903. When Macaulay left Oxford to rejoin her family in rural Wales, she began to publish poetry, and then novels. In 1906, two months before her first novel was published, the family moved to Great Shelford, a village south of Cambridge, where her father taught English literature at Trinity College. In 1912 Macaulay's sixth novel, The Lee Shore, won a Hodder & Stoughton literary prize of £600 (equivalent to over £50,000 or $70,000 in the present day), finally giving her financial independence. She moved to London in 1913. When the First World War broke out Macaulay volunteered as a VAD in a hospital for a few months but was much happier when she began working on the land. After nearly a year in the Women's Land Army Macaulay succeeded in her application for an office job. She published the first pacifist novel in Britain in 1916, Non-Combatants and Others. From January 1917 she worked in the War Office on cases of exemption from military service and conscientious objectors. When the war ended Macaulay began to publish prolifically as a professional woman of letters. Her second volume of poetry came out in 1919. She published twenty-two books between 1919 and 1939: only half of these were novels, but at least one, Potterism (1920) was a best-seller. Her two most well-known novels would appear after the Second World War, during which, at the age of sixty, she was a volunteer ambulance driver. The World My Wilderness (1950) and The Towers of Trebizond (1956) would bring her widespread fame at a level that her earlier novels had not achieved.MacDonald, Kate: - Kate Macdonald is a publisher and a literary historian. She has published a number of books, chapters and articles on twentieth-century publishing history and the book business. She is the editor of Rose Macaulay, Gender and Modernity, the first edited collection of essays on Macaulay, published by Routledge in 2018.
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