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Rebecca West

Born

in London, England

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. 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 · 19,294 ratings · 2,603 reviews · 138 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Return of the Soldier 3.69 avg rating — 9,090 ratings — published 1918 — 254 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) 3.70 avg rating — 3,348 ratings — published 1956 — 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
	Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 2,637 ratings — published 1941 — 111 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 3.88 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 1984 — 34 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 3.61 avg rating — 509 ratings — published 1985 — 28 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 3.60 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1966 — 49 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 3.16 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1929 — 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 Thinking Reed 3.54 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1936 — 39 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 3.73 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 1946 — 30 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 Meaning of Treason 3.77 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1947 — 36 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

974 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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August 2017 Short Classic Poll

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, 1842, 56 pgs

53 votes, 17.0%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 1952, 109 pgs

49 votes, 15.7%

The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov, 1899, 80 pgs

34 votes, 10.9%

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, 1966, 126 pgs

32 votes, 10.3%

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, 1819, 60 pgs

31 votes, 9.9%

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 1853, 64 pgs

24 votes, 7.7%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1764, 125 pgs

24 votes, 7.7%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 1918, 82 pgs

19 votes, 6.1%

Satisfaction Guaranteed by Isaac Asimov, 1951, 15 pgs

15 votes, 4.8%

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, 1905, 30 pgs

12 votes, 3.8%

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, 1937, 108 pgs

10 votes, 3.2%

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, 1941, 32 pg

9 votes, 2.9%

312 total votes

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