Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rebecca West
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Standard Name: West, Rebecca
Birth Name: Cicily Isabel Fairfield
Nickname: Cissie
Nickname: Anne
Nickname: Panther
Nickname: Rac
Pseudonym: Rebecca West
Married Name: Cicily Isabel Andrews
Used Form: R*b*cc* W*st
Rebecca West
rose to fame early (before the First World War) through her witty, acerbic journalism. In addition to numerous essays and reviews, she wrote about a dozen novels, short stories, political analyses, a classic travel book, and works of literary criticism. Her journalism remains an important commentary on the contemporary women's movement, offering both strong intellectual support and trenchant satire. She is known for her pungency of phrase; on occasion she was more eager for a phrase to strike shockingly home than for it to withstand criticism.
Dora Marsden
, then the editor, and Rebecca West
launched a much-needed subscription campaign in order to re-establish the journal on sound financial footing after it had run into trouble for publishing allegedly immoral contents....
Occupation
H. D.
Despite her peripatetic wartime existence HD took over, by June 1916, Richard Aldington
's position as co-editor of The Egoist while he was serving in the British Army. (He had succeeded in this position to...
Occupation
Eleanor Farjeon
In 1939, EF
became a member of the executive committee of the PEN Club
. She remained on the committee for ten years, during which its chief work was helping with the escape and establishment...
Occupation
Dora Marsden
Funding and other support for the fledgling New Freewoman had been organized via the New Freewoman Company Ltd
, the directors of which were Weaver, Marsden, Grace Jardine
, and Bessie Heyes
. Through it...
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
69
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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politics
Storm Jameson
Guests included Rebecca West
and Rose Macaulay
. This event led to the publication of the anthology Challenge to Death: A Symposium on War and Peace (1934)
politics
Virginia Woolf
On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...
politics
James Tiptree Jr.
But it was not until she became a college student in her forties that she discovered feminism and women's writing, in a series that led her from Hannah Arendt
to Simone de Beauvoir
and then...
politics
Dora Marsden
According to Marsden, twelve to fifteen people were expected at this meeting but about a hundred attended. Meetings were open to male and female members and were held every two weeks, while chapters were also...
Publishing
Daphne Du Maurier
She wrote this novel during the previous winter at her parents' country house, Ferryside at Bodinnick in Cornwall.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
While she worked at it, some lines from an Emily Brontë
poem (Self-Interrogation) came...
Publishing
Pamela Frankau
PF
's cousin Diana Raymond
published, with a preface, in a limited edition from Tragara Press
of Edinburgh, Frankau's parody A Letter from R*b*cc* W*st.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing
Dora Marsden
The paper folded mainly because of financial problems. After losing money for some time, its final issue was released only with the backing of photographer and writer G. C. Beresford
. Rebecca West
suggested years...
Reception
Mary Webb
This exemplifies the double-edged nature of MW
's reputation. On the one hand she has become almost synonymous in the public mind with the genre she made famous: the romantic, earthy, rural novel. Her early...
Reception
Norah Lofts
NL
's writing earned a high degree of popular success. Her books have sold more than one million copies. Many were reprinted in the 1970s by Corgi
, Fawcett
, Hodder and Stoughton
, Manor
Reception
Harriet Shaw Weaver
In 1932Eliot
dedicated his Selected Essays to HSW
: in gratitude and in recognition of her services to English letters.
qtd. in
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking, 1970.
