The Young Rebecca
Writings of Rebecca West 1911-1917
$75.43
- Paperback
420 pages
- Release Date
31 December 1999
Summary
In 1916, when Rebecca West was not yet twenty-five years old, George Bernard Shaw wrote: ‘Rebecca can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.’ These early writings, collected ehre for the first time, established Rebecca West’s reputation as a brilliant journalist and a dedicated yet undogmatic feminist and socialist. From the age of nineteen, writing articles for The Freewoman, and later the Clarion, she displayed her characteristic fierce intelligence, her pass…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860683186 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0860683184 |
| Author: | Rebecca West |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 420 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 1999 |
| Weight: | 458g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Rebecca West
Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, taking her pen name from an Ibsen play. A feminist and social reformer, she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1959. Her only son, Anthony West (1914-1987), was the son of author H.G. Wells.
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