In the history of letters, Rebecca West is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Rebecca West as British writer, journalist, literary critic, and feminist (1892-1983).
Rebecca West was born at London in 1892. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom. She was educated at George Watson's College.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
She worked as journalist, writer and literary critic.
The writing is recorded in English.
A writer's real subject usually becomes visible only across the whole body of work.
Recognition followed: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
That the work was written from United Kingdom matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Rebecca West died in 1983, aged 91. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
