Rebecca West
Also known as West, Dame Rebecca, Dame Rebecca West, Cicely Fairchild, Cicily Isabel Andrews, Cicily Andrews, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, Cicily Isobel Fairfield, Cicily Isabel Fairfield
British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist (1892-1983)
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Rebecca West was a British writer, journalist, and literary critic who became one of the most influential feminist voices of the 20th century. Her work across multiple genres and her sharp social commentary made her a significant cultural figure from the early 1900s until her death in 1983.
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- Born
- 1892
- Died
- 1983
- Works
- 312
Top works
- The return of the soldier
- Agneau Noir et agneau gris
- Train of Powder
- The Harsh Voice
- Henry James
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Known for
- Reds — Herself - Witness1981
- Small World — Self1958
- Cover to Cover1936
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Dame Cecily Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West 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 (first published as a magazine article in 1945 and then expanded to the book in 1947), later The New Meaning of Treason (1964), a study of the trial of American-born fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier (1918), a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows (1956), This Real Night (published posthumously in 1984), and Cousin Rosamund (1985).
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1892 births1983 deaths20th-century British essayists20th-century British novelists20th-century British travel writers20th-century British women novelistsBritish deistsBritish essayistsBritish feminist writersBritish literary criticsBritish socialistsBritish suffragistsBritish women civil rights activists