They Were Defeated (20th Century Classics) - Softcover

Macaulay, Rose

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192813161 ISBN 13: 9780192813169

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1981

Synopsis

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 great enrichment of the English language Miss Macaulay has chosen an historical subject....She has added something permanent to English letters."--Observer Rose Macaulay was a successful novelist whose works include Potterism and The Towers of Trebizond. Susan Howatch is the author of The Dark Shore and Penmarric.

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About the Author:

Rose Macaulay was born on 11 August 1881 at Rugby. She read history at Oxford but was primarily interested in writing. Her first novel, ABBOTS VERNEY, was published when she was 25; then followed such celebrated novels as POTTERISM (1920), CREWE TRAIN (1926) and THEY WERE DEFEATED (1932). The Second World War interrupted this success - her home was destroyed by a bomb, she was bereaved more than once and she suffered serious ill health. However in the 1950s she overcame her misfortunes. Her novel THE TOWERS OF TREBIZOND won her the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1956, and in 1958 she was created a Dame of the British Empire.

Synopsis:

With her father, Julian Conybeare, fifteen, moves, to seventeenth century Cambridge, where she falls in love with John Cleveland, her brother's tutor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0192813161
• ISBN 13: 9780192813169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448