Rebecca West (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Rollyson
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1892-1983
- Setting: Ibstone House, near Stokenchurch (Buckinghamshire), and London, England; various locations in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and the United States
- Principal Characters: Rebecca West, H. G. Wells, Anthony West, Henry Andrews, Letitia (Lettie) Fairfield
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Journalism or journalists, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Novelists, Paranoia
- Locales: Europe, United States, London, England, South Africa, Middle East, Buckinghamshire, England
Rebecca West’s literary career spanned the twentieth century. From her first articles in London suffragist papers before World War I, to her last reviews in the Sunday Telegraph in the late 1970’s, West was an Anglo-American writer of remarkable range and vitality. Novelist, biographer, literary critic, travel writer, and investigative journalist, West produced dozens of books in multiple genres, and was a popular and critical success on both sides of the Atlantic for decades; a 1948 Time magazine cover story proclaimed her the “No. 1 Woman Writer.” A raconteur...
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