Rebecca West

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born

December 21, 1892 in London, The United Kingdom

died

March 15, 1983

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Politics, History

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Cicely Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892-15 March 1983), known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century. She reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treaso...more

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Books by Rebecca West

Average rating: 3.90 · 1,901 ratings · 346 reviews · 43 distinct works

	The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Norman Price (Illustrator), Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction) 3.65 avg rating — 785 ratings — published 1918 — 50 editions	My rating:
	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 4.26 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1941 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West, Andrea Barrett (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 320 ratings — published 1956 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Birds Fall Down 3.80 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Cousin Rosamund 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	This Real Night 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Thinking Reed 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1936 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Harriet Hume 3.53 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1929 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The New Meaning of Treason 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1945 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sunflower 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1987 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Rebecca West

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute."

(Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice, The Clarion, 14 November 1913)”
― Rebecca West, Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

tags: clichés , empowerment , feminism , opinions , women , womens-liberation

219 people liked it

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”
― Rebecca West

12 people liked it

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

tags: extraordinary , life , music

11 people liked it

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What fiction book would you like to read for March's book of the month?

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

14 votes, 40.0%

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

11 votes, 31.4%

Novel on Yellow Paper, Or, Work It Out for Yourself by Stevie Smith

7 votes, 20.0%

The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos

2 votes, 5.7%

Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia by H.G. Wells

1 vote, 2.9%

35 total votes

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