Dearest Jean - Smith, Martin Ferguson

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Résumé :
List Of Illustrations Abbreviations Editor's Preface Editor's Preface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgements Chronology 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 Consul's 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 Macaulay's 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...

Biographie:
Martin Ferguson Smith, OBE, is professor emeritus of Classics at Durham University. He is well known not only as a classical scholar, but also for his highly original research and writing on Rose Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, the artists Helen and Roger Fry, Mary Gordon (first female prison inspector in Britain), Dorothy L. Sayers, Katharine Tynan, and Richard Reynolds (schoolteacher of Tolkien)....

Sommaire:
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 writer's 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 women's writing....