Dearest Jean: Rose Macaulays Letters to a Cousin

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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

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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Martin Ferguson Smith is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Durham University