Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulays Letters to a Cousin

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Rose Macaulay was one of the most versatile, successful, and significant women writers in the first half of the twentieth century and Jean Smith, Macaulay's first cousin, is a talented but diffident and depressive poet who was briefly an Anglican nun before converting to Roman Catholicism. This title presents the letters from Macaulay to Smith.

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Rose Macaulay's is a unique voice in English Literature. If The Towers of Trebizond is her masterpiece, there is also much of her genius in the letters. Indeed, she is one of the great letter-writers in her language and she wrote her best letters to her cousin Jean Smith. This volume is full of previously buried treasure. It will delight Macaulay's fans and win many new readers to appreciate her civilised, witty "take" on the world.' A.N.Wilson These 'new' letters, characterised by the same vitality and wit that are hallmarks of Macaulay's novels, present all kinds of people, places, events, topics, and opinions. They illuminate the writer's life and career, and the literary and social scene, especially in the years that followed the First World War. Their value is enhanced by the thorough work of the editor who has drawn on unpublished as well as published sources. Sir Simon Jenkins

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Martin Ferguson Smith is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Durham