Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield))
(1892-1983), Writer and journalistSitter in 29 portraits
As a teenager, West's precocious journalism flourished in the feminist weekly the Freewoman, prompting George Bernard Shaw to praise her for writing 'as brilliantly as ever I could, and much more savagely'. Eight novels include The Fountain Overflows (1957) and The Sunflower, published posthumously, and portraying aspects of her ten-year relationship with the writer H.G. Wells. West's reportage of the Nuremberg trials, The Meaning of Treason (1949), and her cultural study of the Balkan states, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1937), put her at the forefront of political commentary.
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