Dame Rebecca West, DBE (December 21, 1892–March 15, 1983), whose real name was Cicely (she later changed it to "Cicily") Isabel Fairfield, was a British-Irish feminist and writer famous for her novels and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. A prolific, protean author, she wrote essays and articles for The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Sunday Telegraph, and The New York Herald Tribune. She also was an important correspondent for the "Bookman." Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... For other uses, see the disambiguation section. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1922 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. ...

She was born in London. Her Irish journalist father deserted her Scottish mother — and then died — while Cecily was still a child. The rest of the family moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she was educated at George Watson's Ladies College. She trained as an actress, taking the name "Rebecca West" from Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement before the First World War, and worked as a journalist on Freewoman and the Clarion. She met Wells in 1913, and their affair lasted ten years. They had a son, Anthony West, but Wells was already married (for the second time). West is also said to have had affairs with Charlie Chaplin and newspaper magnate Max Beaverbrook. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Edinburgh (pronounced ; Scottish Gaelic: ) is the capital of Scotland and its second-largest city. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... George Watsons College is a leading co-educational independent day school in Scotland, situated on Colinton Road, in the Merchiston area of Scotlands capital city Edinburgh. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... Rosmersholm is a tragedy that was written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1886. ... Photo of Henrik Ibsen in his older days Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828 – May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright who was largely responsible for the rise of the modern realistic drama. ... Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette (also occasionally spelt suffraget) was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... The Freewoman, first published on 23 November 1911, was a feminist weekly edited by Dora Marsden and Mary Gawthorpe, with a strong literary orientation. ... Clarion can be: Clarion programming language Clarion, Iowa Clarion, Pennsylvania The Clarion Workshop, a six-week workshop for aspiring science fiction writers, held each summer at Michigan State University Clarion (car audio), a car audio brand Clarion (newspaper), a British socialist newspaper of the nineteenth century Clarion (musical instrument), a... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Anthony West (August 4, 1914 - December 27, 1987) was a British author. ... Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... Sir William Maxwell Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook (May 25, 1879 - June 9, 1964) was a Canadian–British business tycoon and politician. ...

In 1930, she married a banker, Henry Maxwell Andrews, and they remained together until his death in 1968. Before and during World War II, West travelled widely, collecting material for books on travel and politics. She was present at the Nuremberg trials. Her later work as a writer and broadcaster reflected these experiences. Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33... The Süddeutsche Zeitung announces The Verdict in Nuremberg. ...

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1949, and was raised to Dame Commander (DBE) in 1959. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire (Military division) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority...

Quotes

• "I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
• "It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
• "Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and their audience."
• "Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations."

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)

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Non-Fiction

• Henry James (1916)
• The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928)
• St. Augustine (1933)
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), an 1,181-page classic of travel literature, largely pro-Serb in its point of view, giving an account of Balkan history and ethnography, and the significance of Nazism, structured about her trip to Yugoslavia in 1937.
• The Meaning of Treason (1949)
• The New Meaning of Treason (1964)
• A Train of Powder (1955)
• The Court and the Castle:some treatments of a recurring theme (1958)

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External links

• Works by Rebecca West at Project Gutenberg
• 1984 audio interview of Anthony West, son of Rebecca West by Don Swaim
• New York Times obituary

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References

• Carl E. Rollyson, Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century