From the time that George Bernard Shaw remarked that "Rebecca West
could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more
savagely", West's writings and her politics have elicited strong
reactions. This collection of her letters -- the first ever
published -- has been culled from the estimated ten thousand she
wrote during her long life. The more than two hundred selected
letters follow this spirited author, critic, and journalist from
her first feminist campaign for women's suffrage when she was a
teenager through her reassessments of the twentieth century written
in 1982, in her ninetieth year.
The letters, which are presented in full, include correspondence
with West's famous lover H. G. Wells and with Shaw, Virginia Woolf,
Emma Goldman, Noel Coward, and many others; offer pronouncements on
such contemporary authors as Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer, and
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; and provide new insights into her battles
against misogyny, fascism, and communism. West deliberately
fashions her own biography through this intensely personal
correspondence, challenging rival accounts of her groundbreaking
professional career, her frustrating love life, and her tormented
family relations. Engrossing to read, the collection sheds new
light on this important figure and her social and literary
milieu.
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