Rebecca West (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Rebecca West is best known for her contribution to nonfiction writing, in which she showed a remarkable facility for blending the genres of history, travel, biography, and literary criticism. Ranking just below such masterpieces as Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and The Meaning of Treason are her works The Fountain Overflows and The Birds Fall Down. It does her a disservice to separate her fiction and nonfiction, for all of her mature writing is informed by a strongly novelistic sensibility.
West was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield. Her father, Charles...
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Birds Fall Down, The (British Fiction)Birds Fall Down, The (Women’s Literature)Birds Fall Down, The (Character Profiles)Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Masterplots Classics)Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Women’s Literature)Cousin Rosamund (Magill Book Reviews)Family Memories (Women’s Literature)Family Memories (Magill Book Reviews)Fountain Overflows, The (British Fiction)Fountain Overflows, The (Character Profiles)Indissoluble Matrimony (Short Stories)Return of the Soldier, The (British Fiction)Return of the Soldier, The (Character Profiles)This Real Night (Magill Book Reviews)Feminist Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
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