The Essential Rebecca West: Uncollected Prose: West.
In the map “City of Women”—which appears in the forthcoming book “Nonstop Metropolis,” a creative atlas of New York City that I co-authored with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro—we tried on what it would look like to live in such power, by paying homage to some of the great and significant women of New York City in the places where they lived, worked, competed, went to school, danced, painted.
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Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.169, Open Road Media “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.169, Open Road Media It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
Dame Rebecca West Dies in London By LINDA CHARLTON. ame Rebecca West, the versatile British woman of letters whose seven decades of literary output ranged from reportage to political commentary, essays, history and novels, died yesterday at her London home. She was 90 years old.
Rebecca West. Dame Rebecca West was a British writer, journalist, and literary critic. West initially trained as an actress, but soon found her calling as a writer after having several essays and editorial pieces on politics and women’s suffrage published in prominent magazines such as The Daily Telegraph and the New York Herald TribuneA Train of Powder, The Meaning of Treason, and The New.
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.
Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf give great significance to the families of their respective main characters in The Return of the Soldier and Jacob’s Room because it gives the reader a greater insight to the formation of and reasoning for both Chris and Jacob’s nature. Each of these characters have multiple families to deal with: Chris has Kitty and Jenny on the one hand, and Margaret on.