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Rebecca West
British feminist and author (1892–1983)
For the Ibsen character, see Rosmersholm.
Dame Rebecca West DBE | |
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Portrait of West by Madame Yevonde | |
| Born | Cecily Isabel Fairfield (1892-12-21)21 December 1892 London, England |
| Died | 15 March 1983(1983-03-15) (aged 90) London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Children | Anthony West |
Dame Cecily Isabel FairfieldDBE (21 December 1892 – 15 March 1983), known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.
An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman.
Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason (