Rebecca West Summary

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, politic... Read more

Critical Essay by Philip Littell What kind of book about Henry James would you expect from a vivid and eager young radical, whose own interest in politics and history is prodigious, who has a keen ap... Read more

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Janeway [Fifteen] years after "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon," Miss West publishes a new novel ["The Fountain Overflows"], a real Dickensian Chris... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement 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... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosemary Dinnage 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 d... Read more

Critical Essay by New Statesman 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 su... Read more

Critical Essay by William Plomer [The] four "short novels" which Miss Rebecca West has collected under the title of The Harsh Voice are a significant expression of current truths, thoug... Read more

Critical Essay by Mary Ross "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed," wrote Pascal in the passage from which the title of Rebecca West's ne... Read more