Rebecca West

Born

in London, England

December 21, 1892

Died

March 15, 1983

Website

http://www.openroadmedia.com/authors/rebecca-we...

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: 3.87 · 11,560 ratings · 1,538 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, Verlyn Klinkenborg (Introduction) , Norman Price (Illustrator) 3.70 avg rating — 4,639 ratings — published 1918 — 132 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) 4.23 avg rating — 1,765 ratings — published 1941 — 38 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) 3.88 avg rating — 1,807 ratings — published 1956 — 29 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 3.66 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1966 — 21 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 4.04 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1984 — 16 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 3.81 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1986 — 14 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 3.54 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1936 — 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
	Harriet Hume 3.48 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 1929 — 16 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 3.76 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1946 — 19 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 3.50 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1922 — 53 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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Series by Rebecca West

Aubrey Trilogy (4 books)
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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.”
― 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, Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

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

950 likes

“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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Which book would you like to read for our January group read?

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

37 votes, 36.3%

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

33 votes, 32.4%

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

20 votes, 19.6%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

12 votes, 11.8%

102 total votes

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