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15. Apr. 2024 · Rebecca West (born December 21, 1892, London, England—died March 15, 1983, London) was a British journalist, novelist, and critic, who was perhaps best known for her reports on the Nürnberg trials of Nazi war criminals (1945–46).
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Rebecca West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield in 1892 in London, England, and grew up in a home full of intellectual stimulation, political debate, lively company, books and music. Her mother, Isabella, a Scotswoman, was an accomplished pianist but did not pursue a musical career after her marriage to Charles Fairfield. The Anglo-Irish Charles had ...
West grew up in a home filled with discussions of world affairs. Her father was a journalist who often involved himself in controversial issues. He brought home Russian revolutionaries and other political activists, and their debates helped to form West's sensibility, which took shape in novels such as The Birds Fall Down, set in pre-revolution Rus...
West's parents had her baptised into the Church of England two months after birth and she considered herself a Christian, though an unconventional believer. At times, she found God to be wicked; at other times she considered him merely ineffectual and defeated. However, she revered Christ as the quintessentially good man, she had great respect for ...
Long time book reviewer and senior editor at Time, Whittaker Chambers, considered West "a novelist of note ... a distinguished literary critic ... above all ... one of the greatest of living journalists." Virginia Woolf questioned Rebecca West being labelled as an "arrant feminist" because she offended men by saying they are snobs in chapter two of...
Fiction
1. 1914 – Indissoluble Matrimony, a controversial short story which was first published in Blast No. 1. Edited by Yolanda Morató for the Spanish publishing house Zut, it was also published in the Spanish edition of Blast No. 1 (Madrid: Juan March Foundation, 2010). This novellachallenges many issues about feminism and women's involvement in politics in pre-war Britain. 2. 1918 – The Return of the Soldier, the first World War I novel written by a woman, about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier...
Non-fiction
1. 1916 – Henry James 2. 1928 – The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews, a blend of modernist literary criticism and cognitive science, including a long essay explaining why West disliked James Joyce's Ulysses, though she judged it an important book 3. 1931 – Ending in Earnest: A Literary Log 4. 1932 – Arnold Bennett Himself, John Day 5. 1933 – St. Augustine, first psycho-biography of the Christian Church Father 6. 1934 – The Modern Rake's Progress (co-authored with cartoonist David Low) 7....
Select criticism and biography
1. Wolfe, Peter (1 November 1971). Rebecca West: artist and thinker. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-0483-7. 2. Deakin, Motley F. (1980). Rebecca West. Twayne Authors. Twayne. ISBN 978-0-8057-6788-9. 3. Orel, Harold (1986). The literary achievement of Rebecca West. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-23672-7. 4. Glendinning, Victoria (1987). Rebecca West: A Life. Knopf. ISBN 0394539354. 5. Rollyson, Carl E. (1996). Rebecca West: a life. Scribner. ISBN 0684194309. 6. Rollyson, Carl (...
Portraits of Rebecca West at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonWorks by Rebecca West at Project GutenbergWorks by or about Rebecca West at Internet ArchiveWorks by Rebecca West at LibriVox(public domain audiobooks)16. Aug. 2022 · Rebecca West today : contemporary critical approaches. Publication date. 2006. Topics. West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 -- Criticism and interpretation, West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 -- Political and social views, West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 -- Aesthetics, Politics in literature, Feminism in literature, Philosophy in literature. Publisher.
Rebecca West, Fotografie von Madame Yevonde. Dame Rebecca West DBE (* 21. Dezember 1892 in London als Cicily Isabel Fairfield; † 15. März 1983 ebenda) war eine britische Schriftstellerin und Journalistin
7. Apr. 1996 · The New Yorker, April 15, 1996 P. 74. LIFE AND LETTERS about writer Rebecca West and the war in Yugoslavia. Rebecca West wrote her masterpiece on Yugoslavia, "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"...
Born in 1892, Rebecca West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield and, in preparation for her role as a socialist feminist, took her adopted name from the spiky heroine in Henrik Ibsen’s play Rosmersholm. In 1947, Time magazine called West ‘indisputably the world’s number one woman writer’ and she was equally distinguished as a novelist ...
