"Some of West s earliest writings devastatingly funny, fiercely feminist and socialist now have been rescued from obscurity and published with Jane Marcus s excellent commentary in The Young Rebecca." St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Thanks to Marcus s arduous labor of selection, we have here a living, breathing evocation of the early feminist and socialist movements in England as recorded by a highly opinionated participant." Jessica Mitford

"The Young Rebecca reflects West s] consuming interest in feminist and socialist issues. Quite apart from their technical excellence, these articles are remarkable because they were produced by a girl barely out of her teens, and because many of them read as if they were written last Tuesday." The Atlanta Journal

..". a fierce and funny scourge of establishment figures... her prose sparkles... " Book World, The Washington Post

Jane Marcus brings together some of Rebecca West s early journalistic writings, collected here for the first time, which reveal West s passionate responses to political and literary events as well as her experience in the suffrage campaign. Included are articles from The Freewoman, The Clarion, and the Daily News, among others."