About Rebecca West:
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. An author who wrote in many genres, West reviewed books for The Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Republic, and she was a correspondent for The Bookman. Her major works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), on the history and culture of Yugoslavia; A Train of Powder (1955), her coverage of the Nuremberg trials, published originally in The New Yorker; The Meaning of Treason, later The New Meaning of Treason, a study of the trial of the British Fascist William Joyce and others; The Return of the Soldier, a modernist World War I novel; and the "Aubrey trilogy" of autobiographical novels, The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund. Time called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947. She was made CBE in 1949, and DBE in 1959, in each case, the citation reads 'writer and literary critic'.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Rebecca WestGod forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
Rebecca WestInternational relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
Rebecca WestLife ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca WestThe main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Rebecca West