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Rebecca West

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

December 21, 1892

Died

March 15, 1983

Genre

Fiction, Politics, History

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Cicely Isabel Fairfield, 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 Treason, later The New Meaning of Trea ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 16,612 ratings · 2,172 reviews · 98 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction), Norman Price (Illustrator) 3.69 avg rating — 6,975 ratings — published 1918 — 174 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West, Andrea Barrett (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 2,670 ratings — published 1956 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 2,236 ratings — published 1941 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Real Night 3.93 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1984 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cousin Rosamund 3.66 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 1985 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Birds Fall Down 3.65 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 1966 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Train of Powder 3.78 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1946 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harriet Hume 3.22 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1929 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thinking Reed 3.59 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1936 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Judge 3.54 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1922 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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.”
― Rebecca West

tags: feminism, qotd

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“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.”
― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

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

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

tags: extraordinary, life, music

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Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

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Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

17 votes 14.7%

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

16 votes 13.8%

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

12 votes 10.3%

The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

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The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

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Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

11 votes 9.5%

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

11 votes 9.5%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

5 votes 4.3%

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