Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) 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.
The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay’s novels were partly influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues.
Books in order of publication:
Fiction:
- Abbots Verney (1906) John Murray
- The Furnace (1907) John Murray
- The Secret River (1909) John Murray
- The Valley Captives (1911) John Murray
- Views and Vagabonds (1912) John Murray
- The Lee Shore (1913) Hodder & Stoughton
- The Making of a Bigot (c 1914) Hodder & Stoughton
- Non-Combatants and Others (1916) Hodder & Stoughton
- What Not: A Prophetic Comedy (1918) What Not was an influence on Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Constable & Co
- Potterism (1920) William Collins
- Dangerous Ages (1921) William Collins
- Mystery At Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings (1922) William Collins
- Told by an Idiot (1923) William Collins
- Orphan Island (1924) William Collins
- Crewe Train (1926) William Collins
- Keeping Up Appearances (1928) William Collins
- Staying with Relations (1930) William Collins
- They Were Defeated (1932) William Collins
- Going Abroad (1934) William Collins
- I Would Be Private (1937) William Collins
- And No Man’s Wit (1940) William Collins
- The World My Wilderness (1950) William Collins
- The Towers of Trebizond (1956) William Collins
Poetry:
- The Two Blind Countries (1914) Sidgwick & Jackson
- Three Days (1919) Constable
- Misfortunes, with engravings by Stanley Morison (1930)
Non-fiction:
- A Casual Commentary (1925) Methuen
- Some Religious Elements in English Literature (1931) Hogarth
- Milton (1934) Duckworth
- Personal Pleasures (1935) Gollancz
- The Minor Pleasures of Life (1936) Gollancz
- An Open Letter (1937) Peace Pledge Union
- The Writings of E.M. Forster (1938) Hogarth
- Life Among the English (1942) William Collins
- Southey in Portugal (1945) Nicholson & Watson
- They Went to Portugal (1946) Jonathan Cape
- Evelyn Waugh (1946) Horizon
- Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal By Road (1949) Hamish Hamilton
- Pleasure of Ruins (1953) Thames & Hudson
- Coming to London (1957) Phoenix House
- Letters to a Friend 1950–52 (1961) William Collins
- Last Letters to a Friend 1952–1958 (1962) William Collins
- Letters to a Sister (1964) William Collins
- They Went to Portugal Too (1990) (The second part of They Went to Portugal, not published with the 1946 edition because of paper restrictions.) Carcanet
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