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Rebecca West | | Variant Name: |
Cicily Fairfield Andrews, Cecily Isobel Fairfield Andrews, Dame Rebecca West | | Birth Date: |
December 21, 1892 | | Death Date: |
March 15, 1983 | | Nationality: |
British, English | | Ethnicity: |
Irish | | Gender: |
Female |
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 Biography of Rebecca West
11,763 words, approx. 39 pages
 Rebecca West's career as a writer of both fiction and of nonfiction spanned more than seventy years. She excelled in writing novels and short stories, literary theory and criticism, biography, political analysis, and persuasive rhetoric for various... 
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 Rebecca West Quotes
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 Rebecca West ( 1892-12-21 — 1983-03-15 ) was the pseudonym of Cecily (or Cicily ) Isabel Fairfield, an Anglo-Irish feminist and author. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Harsh Voice (1935) 1.2 The Thinking Reed (1936) 2 Unsourced 3 External Links // Sourced...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Rebecca West Information
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Cicely (changed to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield (December 21, 1892–March 15, 1983), better known by her pen name Dame Rebecca West, DBE, was a British-Irish suffragist and writer famous for her novels, literary criticism, travel literature and for her...
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 National Review Rebecca West.
07/08/1988: 818 words, approx. 3 pages Rebecca West, by Victoria Glendinning (Knopf, 320 pp., $19.95) TRAGIC IRONIES Jeffrey Meyers IN AUGUST 1977 Dame Rebecca West invited me to tea in her magnificent flat at Prince's Gate, overlooking Kensington Gardens in London. A doddering Irish maid announced my... summary from source:
The Washington Post Rebecca West: A Woman Of Independent Ways
10/04/1987: 977 words, approx. 3 pagesREBECCA WEST This Is What Matters By Victoria Glendinning Knopf. 300 pp. $19.95 AMONG THE endowments a writer might wish for, surely wit is near the top of the list. Regular delivery of bons mots-especially the biting kind-tempts editors to find space for you... summary from source:
 AP News Agents' revolt shakes talent agency
9/25/2007: 537 words, approx. 2 pagesTheatrical and literary agents are taking leading roles in a corporate drama in London, resigning one after another from a major agency and threatening to take their clients with them.The exodus from PFD Group Ltd., a leading international literary and talent agency, could be a... summary from source:
The New York Observer Roiphe Escapes From Herself, Delves Into Edwardian Marriages
6/26/2007: 772 words, approx. 3 pagesUNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY CIRCLES, 1910–1939By Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $26, 344 pages Within a certain social circle—O.K., mine—mention of the name Katie Roiphe inspires exasperated eye rolls, forehead slaps, even hisses. Ms. Roiphe is the author,...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Rosemary Dinnage
1,760 words, approx. 6 pages
The current interest in Rebecca West's work, even if it is partly due to the pursuit of every and any feminist writer and partly homage to her age, is well deserved. But she is a critic's nightmare. How can anyone have written so well and so badly? Have worked in so many different genres? Be so resistant to fitting any particular pigeonhole? If [The Return of the Soldier, Harriet Hume, The Young Rebecca, and 1900] were representative of her life's work, she need not be taken too serious... summary from source:
Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
1,480 words, approx. 5 pages
The Fountain Overflows is Miss Rebecca West's first novel for twenty-one years and is indeed only her sixth work of fiction. That this should be so is no doubt the price she has had to pay for her versatility as a writer. Are we to think of her primarily as a brilliant reporter, a great journalist? That she certainly is. But during her career as a writer she has played many parts: she has been, among other things, an admirable literary critic and a wonderfully astringent reviewer. Yet the publication... summary from source:
Critical Essay by New Statesman
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The Strange Necessity is almost as tedious as Das Kapital, and with much less justification. It is so intrinsically unreadable that the printer's reader will surely be the last and only man who will ever be able to claim that he has read all through the sixty or seventy thousand words of it. In the first place, in so far as it contains any fresh or useful idea on the problem of aesthetics—and we are not sure that it does—the adequate expression of that idea need certainly not have occup...
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