Rebecca West (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Although Rebecca West excelled in a variety of literary genres, she first came to prominence as a book reviewer, a role that she continued throughout her life. From her first critique, which appeared in The Freewoman in 1911, to her last, which appeared in the London Sunday Telegraph on October 10, 1982, West wrote almost one thousand reviews. Several of these appear in the collection The Young Rebecca (1982). Her first book, Henry James (1916), which is an evaluation of

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