Rebecca West : A Life - Softcover
The award-winning author Victoria Glendinning was commissioned by Rebecca West herself to write a 'short' biography:she has achieved an exceptionally vivid and moving portrait of this remarkable woman. The story of Rebecca West,who lived from 1892 until 1983,is the story of a twentieth century women.As a teenager,she marched with the suffragettes; she had an affair with H G Wells and became an unmarried mother.A radical socialist in her youth and a passionate opponent of Communism in her later years,she won fame as a novelist,critic,travelk-writer and journalist.But her personal life was often as stormy and complex as her public life. In this sympathetic but clear-eyed biography,Victoria Glendinning tells a disturbing story that will evoke admiratrion and pity for an extraordinary woman.
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Victoria Glendinning is a freelance writer, well-known for her successful biographies and novels. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Prize for Biography twice, the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. She is also President of English PEN and a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London, but travels widely, particularly to Provence and south-west Ireland.
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- PublisherPhoenix Paperbacks
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1857994744
- ISBN 13 9781857994742
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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