Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Rose Macaulay
Born: August 1, 1881
Died: October 30, 1958 (aged 77)
Bio: Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel.
Known for:
- The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
- The World My Wilderness (1950)
- Pleasure of ruins (1953)
- Non-combatants and others (1916)
- Potterism (1920)
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