Rebecca West's wide-ranging career as a novelist, journalist, travel and history writer and biographer made her one of the most feted and feared women of her day. With access to her vast archive of letters, diaries and journals, Carl Rollyson has interviewed her friends and family. He discovers how Cicily Fairfield became the audacious Rebecca West, producing pieces such as "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon". In a life of extremes she was viewed as a feminist, an evil mother, an anti-Communist and was made a Dame before her death ...
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Rebecca West's wide-ranging career as a novelist, journalist, travel and history writer and biographer made her one of the most feted and feared women of her day. With access to her vast archive of letters, diaries and journals, Carl Rollyson has interviewed her friends and family. He discovers how Cicily Fairfield became the audacious Rebecca West, producing pieces such as "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon". In a life of extremes she was viewed as a feminist, an evil mother, an anti-Communist and was made a Dame before her death in 1983.
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Very Good. Very Good Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Internally clean and bright, with uncreased pages. Spine intact, bindings firm and tight. All in all, in good used condition. Publisher's note: "Rebecca West's wide-ranging writing career, as a novelist, journalist, travel and history writer and biographer, made her one of the most feted and feared women of her day. Despite the acclaim she attracted throughout her life-her books were often bestsellers-her work has undeservedly fallen out of fashion." "Carl Rollyson has had exclusive access to West's vast archive of letters, diaries, journals and manuscripts. He has interviewed her friends and family, many of whom speak out for the first time. He reveals new details about her affairs with HG Wells (by whom she had a son); the press magnate, Lord Beaverbrook; the renowned journalist, John Gunther; the Nuremberg judge, Francis Biddle; Charlie Chaplin and others. How Cicily Fairfield became the audacious Rebecca West, one of the century's great literary critics and reporters, producing masterpieces such as Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and The Meaning of Treason, is the story of this biography. In a life of extremes, she was seen as a feminist, an evil mother (Rollyson presents the definitive portrayal of her lifelong battle with her son, Anthony West), an ardent anti-communist, a gossip. Like Dr Johnson, she was both the scourge and the wit of her century. When she died on the Ides of March 1983, aged 90, she was a Dame of the British Empire and had finally made it to the screen Reds, a heroine of her age."--Jacket." 442 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; West, Rebecca, 1892-1983; Women journalists; Women novelists, English; Great Britain; Women authors, English; ISBN: 0340590505. ISBN/EAN: 9780340590508. Add. Inventory No: 230220ABK013067.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Neither remainder nor ex-lib. 1st UK edition. Hardcover in deep blue textured boards, in yellow and blue jacket with tinted photo of West spanning front and spine, large 8vo. xiv + 442pp. Index, notes and sources, bibliography, 2 sections b/w plates. Fine/NF to Fine. Book has tight, square but somewhat stiff binding. Mild clouding to dark background of glossy jacket, primarily on rear panel; very mild softening upper spine end. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: bright, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Photos. VG in VG DJ. One of the most brilliant writers of the 20th century challenged Britain and America to cherish an image of Europe. Europe in its full moral and political dimensions. Her restless and ferocious intelligence took her into every corner of the world in every conceivable genre and her ability to astonish with what she found there was seemingly never ceasing.