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| name = They Were Defeated
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| author = [[Rose Macaulay]]
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| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| genre = Historical fiction
| set_in = 1640s
| publisher = [[William Collins, Sons|Collins]]
| pub_date = 1932
| media_type = Hardcover
| pages = 382 pp
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| oclc = 223143700
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'''''They Were Defeated''''' is a historical novel by [[Rose Macaulay]], first published in [[1932 in literature|1932]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview32 "The end of the affair", ''The Guardian'', 31 May 2003]</ref> It was published in the USA under the title ''The Shadow Flies''.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/lastletterstoafr000724mbp/lastletterstoafr000724mbp_djvu.txt ''Last Letters to a Friend'']</ref> It was through the publication of the American edition that Macaulay got back in touch with her cousin, the Rev. John Hamilton Cowper Johnson, and thus began a correspondence that lasted until her death. The historian [[Veronica Wedgwood|C V Wedgwood]] wrote the preface to a 1960 edition of the book, in which she reveals that the novel was written partly at the instigation of Macaulay's publisher, [[John Murray (publisher)|John Murray]], who had asked for something to shed light on the background to her first novel, ''[[Abbots Verney]]'' (1906).
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