West, Rebecca (Pseudonym of Cecily Fairfield Andrews) - West, Rebecca (Pseudonym of Cecily Fairfield Andrews) 1892–
West, Rebecca (Pseudonym of Cecily Fairfield Andrews) 1892–
Dame Rebecca is an English novelist, journalist, critic, and travel writer. A diversified artist with contributions in many fields, West has maintained throughout her work a distinctive style marked by a witty, unique turn of phrase. An early devotee of James and Proust, West explores in her fiction the psychological motivations of her characters. (See also CLC, Vol. 7, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)
"There have as yet been very few women thinkers and artists", Rebecca West wrote in 1931; "that is to say, women who have not adopted masculine values as the basis of their work."… The point that Dame Rebecca was making was not that woman artists should be explicitly and exclusively feminine, but rather that they should be free to realize their gifts without considering the roles that social definitions of gender impose…. For Dame Rebecca, the ideal creative...
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