Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rebecca West
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Standard Name: West, Rebecca
Birth Name: Cicily Isabel Fairfield
Nickname: Cissie
Nickname: Anne
Nickname: Panther
Nickname: Rac
Pseudonym: Rebecca West
Married Name: Cicily Isabel Andrews
Used Form: R*b*cc* W*st
Rebecca West
rose to fame early (before the First World War) through her witty, acerbic journalism. In addition to numerous essays and reviews, she wrote about a dozen novels, short stories, political analyses, a classic travel book, and works of literary criticism. Her journalism remains an important commentary on the contemporary women's movement, offering both strong intellectual support and trenchant satire. She is known for her pungency of phrase; on occasion she was more eager for a phrase to strike shockingly home than for it to withstand criticism.
After a short spell as an apprentice pharmacist, he embarked on a lengthy career in theatre. He is best remembered today as a dramatist, producing such now-canonical titles as Peer Gynt (in his earlier, poetic...
Occupation
Eleanor Farjeon
In 1939, EF
became a member of the executive committee of the PEN Club
. She remained on the committee for ten years, during which its chief work was helping with the escape and establishment...
Occupation
H. D.
Despite her peripatetic wartime existence HD took over, by June 1916, Richard Aldington
's position as co-editor of The Egoist while he was serving in the British Army. (He had succeeded in this position to...
politics
Dora Marsden
According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also...
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
74
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
69
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education.
49
politics
Virginia Woolf
On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...
politics
Storm Jameson
Guests included Rebecca West
and Rose Macaulay
. This event led to the publication of the anthology Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace (1934)
Publishing
Pamela Frankau
PF
's cousin Diana Raymond
published, with a preface, in a limited edition from Tragara Press
of Edinburgh, Frankau's parody A Letter from R*b*cc* W*st.
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Publishing
Dora Marsden
The paper folded mainly because of financial problems. After losing money for some time, its final issue was released only with the backing of photographer and writer G. C. Beresford
. Rebecca West
suggested years...
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
She wrote this novel during the previous winter at her parents' country house, Ferryside at Bodinnick in Cornwall.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
While she worked at it, some lines from an Emily Brontë
poem (Self-Interrogation) came...
Reception
Rhoda Broughton
In a lamentable
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
217
article on the death of Virginia Woolf
, Hugh Walpole
accused literary ladies of acting like priestesses engaged in throwing fragrant incense on their own altars. The first name he mentions...
Reception
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
Penguin was emboldened to embark on the course of action that led to the trial by the Obscene Publications Act of the previous year, which admitted the defence of literary merit against charges of obscenity...
Reception
Mary Webb
This exemplifies the double-edged nature of MW
's reputation. On the one hand she has become almost synonymous in the public mind with the genre she made famous: the romantic, earthy, rural novel. Her early...