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1	Towers of Trebizond more books like this by Rose Macaulay 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. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.84! \| first editions
2	Dangerous Ages more books like this by Rose Macaulay Nan is a young novelist who has a large family. Her grandmother lives with her widowed mother (a woman who doesn't know what to do with herself now that her children are grown). Her sister, Neville, is similarly in the same predicament (her children having grown and are attending University), except that her husband is too busy pursuing his career ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £10.32! \| first editions
3	Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £2.01! new only from £21.50! \| first editions
4	Personal pleasures more books like this by Rose Macaulay Macaulay charmingly catalogues things that make her happy, from catalogues to Christmas to the joy of seeing visitors depart. see all copies from £3.06! new only from £6.48! \| first editions
5	Pleasure of ruins more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £5.04! new only from £11.73! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.63! \| first editions
7	The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Confused and unhappy, she discovers the wrecked and flowering wastes around St Paul's, where she finds an echo of the wilderness of Provence and is forced to confront the wilderness within herself. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £1.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Crewe train more books like this by Rose Macaulay, Dame Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behaviour. CREWE TRAIN is one of Macaulay's wittiest satires. ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £7.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Life Among the English more books like this by Rose Macaulay This book concerns the social life of the English from the ancient Britons through to the 20th century, finding a similarity of behavior across the centuries, from eating and drinking to dress and sport. see all copies from £2.02! new only from £13.10! \| first editions
10	Potterism more books like this by Rose Macaulay 1920. English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Potterism begins: Johnny and Jane Potter, being twins, went through Oxford together. Johnny came up from Rugby and Jane from Roedean. Johnny was at Balliol and Jane at Somerville. Both, having ambitions for literary careers, took the Honours School ... see all copies from £7.50! new only from £9.85! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins more books like this by Rose Macaulay, Dame, Roloff Beny, Constance Babington-Smith see all copies from £5.52! new only from £42.71! \| first editions
12	Staying with Relations more books like this by Rose Macaulay 1930. English novelist Macaulay's early novels were noted for their wit, urbanity and mild satire. Staying with Relations begins: Catherine Grey, a young female, and, like so many young females, a novelist, went to America one autumn and lectured to its inhabitants on the Creation of Character in Fiction. Catherine was twenty-seven, but had, ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £10.70! \| first editions
13	They Were Defeated: The Classic Novel Set in the Reign of King Charles I more books like this by Rose Macaulay THEY WERE DEFEATED begins in 1640 at a harvest festival - but religious persecution is in the air, and the idyllic rural scene is soon darkened by the threat of a witch hunt...Rose Macaulay interweaves the lives of Robert Herrick and other contemporary poets with those of a small group of fictional characters. Their lives, and in particular the ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £3.45!
14	The Writings of E. M. Forster more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £4.99! first editions
15	Orphan Island more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £4.97! new only from £82.15! \| first editions
16	Keeping up appearances more books like this by Rose Macaulay, Dame see all copies from £2.03! new only from £10.32! \| first editions
17	Some Religious Elements in English Literature more books like this by Rose Macaulay What the author has tried to do in this book is to select from out of the mass of material a few specimens, as who, randomly diving into an ocean, should return with a handful or two of seaweed or of pebbles, and to proceed to make thereon a scattered kind of a commentary. The theory was that most religious literature was the outcome of some king ... see all copies from £12.12! new only from £82.06! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Lee Shore by Rose Macaulay 1920 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel. see all copies from £12.14! new only from £12.14!
19 view cover	Non-combatants and others more books like this by Rose Macaulay, Dame see all copies from £1.38! new only from £19.33! \| first editions
20	The Shadow Flies more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £7.06! new only from £82.15! \| first editions
21	Milton more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £6.04! first editions
22	They were defeated. more books like this by Rose Macaulay In this book of tragedy and great beauty, Rose Macaulay's only historical novel, she reveals a lifelong passion for the seventeenth century. Here she interweaves the lives of Robert Herrick and other poets with those of a small group of fictional characters, setting them vividly in one of the most turbulent periods in English history. "The the ... see all copies from £1.38! first editions
23 view cover	Potterism, a tragi-farcical tract by Rose Macaulay, Dame 1920 novel by Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, the English novelist. She received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Towers of Trebizond in 1956. She published thirty-five books, mostly novels but also biography and travel. see all copies from £2.98! new only from £13.48!
24	Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins, by Rose Macaulay: Text Selected and Edited by Constance Badington Smith more books like this by Rose Macaulay see all copies from £5.35! first editions
25	They went to Portugal too more books like this by Rose Macaulay, L C Taylor (Editor) see all copies from £66.17!

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