Sunday, December 22, 2024

Come back to us, Dame West...

"At the age of 16, she published an open letter in The Scotsman demanding the vote for women, which cost her friendships with her peers at their school for young ladies."

~ J.M. Guelbenzu

"'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’ by Rebecca West..."

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-18/black-lamb-and-grey-falcon-by-rebecca-west-a-book-that-no-cultured-person-should-ignore.html

"Afterwards, there was a series of abortive liaisons which, bizarrely, often seem to have left the men impotent (Charlie Chaplin and Max Beaverbrook among them). West's position as an unmarried mother was difficult, so, in 1930, she was pleased to marry Henry Andrews, a banker desperate to look after her."

~ Lara Feigel

"West's World..."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/06/wests-world-lorna-gibb-review


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