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Rebecca West


Born
in London, England
December 21, 1892

Died
March 15, 1983

Genre
Fiction, Politics, History

Influences
Henrik Ibsen ...more


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. She was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she attended George Watson's Ladies College.

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, ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 18,087 ratings · 2,393 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors
The Return of the Soldier
3.70 avg rating — 8,493 ratings — published 1918 — 240 editions
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The Fountain Overflows
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3.70 avg rating — 3,180 ratings — published 1956 — 80 editions
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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4.21 avg rating — 2,519 ratings — published 1941 — 104 editions
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This Real Night
3.89 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 1984 — 33 editions
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Cousin Rosamund
3.63 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions
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The Birds Fall Down
3.60 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 1966 — 47 editions
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Harriet Hume
3.18 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1929 — 30 editions
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A Train of Powder
3.78 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1946 — 30 editions
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The Thinking Reed
3.57 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1936 — 39 editions
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The Judge
3.57 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1922 — 99 editions
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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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Polls

March 2018 Short Story Poll

 
  64 votes, 18.8%

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, 25 pages, 1818
 
  35 votes, 10.3%

 
  35 votes, 10.3%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 101 pages, 1952
 
  34 votes, 10.0%

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848
 
  32 votes, 9.4%

 
  25 votes, 7.3%

 
  21 votes, 6.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941
 
  20 votes, 5.9%

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, 32 pages, 1894
 
  16 votes, 4.7%

Xingu by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1916
 
  14 votes, 4.1%

 
  13 votes, 3.8%

 
  11 votes, 3.2%

To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1902
 
  11 votes, 3.2%

 
  10 votes, 2.9%

341 total votes
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