Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic

by Bernard Schweizer

Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a prominent English critic, journalist, and novelist. She contributed to feminist and socialist magazines, had a lengthy relationship with H. G. Wells, and was named Dame of the British Empire in 1959. Her literary reputation declined after 1970 and was revived in the mid-1980s, with the posthumous publication of three novels and a memoir, as wells as the reissue of several earlier works. With the violent disintegration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323607
• ISBN13: 9780313323607
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 10.2"