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
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.
Timeline
Texts
West, Rebecca. 1900. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1982, http://UofA.
West, Rebecca. A Letter to a Grandfather. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1933.
West, Rebecca. A Train of Powder. Macmillan, 1955.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Cousin Rosamund, Macmillan, 1985, pp. 287-95.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Afterword”. Sunflower, Virago, 1986, pp. 268-76.
West, Rebecca. Arnold Bennett Himself. John Day, 1931, http://UofA.
West, Rebecca. “Bibliography”. Rebecca West: A Celebration, edited by Samuel Hynes, Viking Press, 1977, pp. 761-6.
West, Rebecca. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. 1st ed., Viking, 1941, 2 vols.
West, Rebecca. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. Viking Press, 1945.
West, Rebecca. Cousin Rosamund. Macmillan, 1985, http://UofA.
West, Rebecca. D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, 1930, http://UofA.
West, Rebecca. Ending in Earnest. Doubleday, Doran, 1931.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Hutchinson, 1929.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982.
West, Rebecca. Henry James. Nisbet.
West, Rebecca. “Indissoluble Matrimony”. Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis.
Glendinning, Victoria, and Rebecca West. “Introduction”. Harriet Hume, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1980.
Low, David, and Rebecca West. Lions and Lambs. J. Cape, 1928.
West, Rebecca. McLuhan and the Future of Literature. Oxford University Press, 1969, http://UofA.
West, Rebecca. “Review of: The Position of Women in Indian LifeThe Freewoman.
West, Rebecca. Selected Letters of Rebecca West. Editor Scott, Bonnie Kime, Yale University Press, 2000.
West, Rebecca. St. Augustine. Peter Davies.
West, Rebecca. Sunflower. Virago, 1986.
West, Rebecca. Survivors in Mexico. Editor Schweizer, Bernard, Yale University Press, 2003.
West, Rebecca. “The Addict”. Nash’s Magazine.