Poet
Rose Macaulay
1881-1958
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay DBE was an English writer most noted for her award-winning novel, ‘The Towers of Trebizond’. Macaulay worked in the British Propaganda Department during WWI, she was also a nurse and later a Civil Servant in the War Office. Macaulay’s London flat was destroyed in the Blitz, causing her to completely rebuild her life. Virginia Woolf was a great influence to Macaulay’s work.
Poems
Readings
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Alicia Vikander
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Emilia Fox
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Harriet Walter
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Kelly Reilly
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From Picnic, July 1917 read by Alicia Vikander
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Emilia Fox
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Harriet Walter
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Kelly Reilly