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A Short Biography of Rebecca West

Author Name:

Rebecca West

Born As:

Cicily Isabel Fairfield

Other Names:

Dame Rebecca West, DBE

Born:

21 Dec 1892

Died:

15 Mar 1983




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Critic, journalist and novelist                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

The Return of the Soldier - 1918
The Judge - 1922
Harriet Hume - 1929
The Harsh Voice:Four Short Novels - 1935
The Thinking Reed - 1936
The Fountain Overflows - 1957
The Birds Fall Down - 1966
This Real Night - 1984
Cousin Rosamund - 1985
War Nurse: The True Story of a Woman Who Lived
Loved and Suffered on the Western front

Non-Fiction:

Henry James - 1916
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews - 1928
St Augustine - 1933
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon - 1941
The Meaning of Treason - 1949
The New Meaning of Treason - 1964
A Train of Powder - 1955
The Court and the Castle - 1958
Ending in Earnest: A literary Log
Recurrent Theme
Lions and Lambs - co-author with David Low
The Modern Rake's Progress - co-author with David Low                          
Had an afair with H.G. Wells that lasted for ten years, one child Anthony West. Wells was still married at the time.
Married Henry Maxwell Andrews.                          
Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire - CBE in 1949, and was raised to Dame Commander - DBE in 1959.

Was present at the Nuremberg trials. Her later work as a writer and broadcaster reflected these experiences.