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.

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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
By the early 1930s NM was making as much by her writing, in real terms, as nearly fifty years later. She reviewed novels—reading at great speed even while breast-feeding, since she claimed that [i]f the...
Textual Production Storm Jameson
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production Susan Hill
The anthology of British women writers she published in 1990 with Michael Joseph as The Parchment Moon: An Anthology of Modern Women's Short Stories was reprinted the following year as The Penguin Book of Modern...
Textual Production Pamela Frankau
PF 's novel The Devil We Know was published; the character Jennifer Nash is an unflattering portrait of Rebecca West .
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
138-9
Textual Production James Joyce
Preparing a defence against the allegations, Joyce's lawyer, Morris L. Ernst , obtained hundreds of written opinions from educators, librarians, writers, clergy, and business people. Among those quoted in Ernst's court brief were Rebecca West
Textual Production Dora Marsden
The Freewoman's other writing contributors included Rebecca West , radical feminists Ada Neild Chew and Theresa Billington-Greig , Stella Browne (later founder of the Abortion Law Reform Association ), anarchists Rose Witcop and Guy Aldred
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle
Textual Production Fay Weldon
FW published Rebecca West, an unusual and enthusiastic biographical study.
FW 's grandmother claimed to have known both West and H. G. Wells personally.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
778
Kester-Shelton, Pamela, editor. Feminist Writers. St James Press.
507
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Its editorial team consisted of DM (editor), Rebecca West (assistant editor), and Grace Jardine (sub-editor and editorial assistant).
Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury.
99
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Pamela Frankau
In this book PF offers her impressions of celebrities
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
119
met through her great-aunt Eliza Aria . Place is important too, like her vivid yet dreamlike description of Sligachan on the Isle of Skye...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Janet Montefiore has noted that in A Cup of Tea for Mr. Thorgill Jameson included a rancorous portrait of Rebecca West in the character of Retta Spencer-Savage, a celebrated anti-Communist writer who has built her...
Travel Violet Trefusis
In late 1927, Violet travelled with the same party through the United States. They had tea at the White House and saw Rebecca West while in Washington, DC.
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
69-70
Travel Pamela Frankau
She went on to Alassio in Italy. Next time she visited the south of France she went as the guest of Rebecca West .
Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson.
143, 189
Like most people of her class and period,...
Violence Mary Gawthorpe
This description comes from Cicily Fairfield (the future Rebecca West) , who was observing the election campaign. West also said that stewards commonly used great physical violence, and she attributed Gawthorpe's health breakdown directly to...

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