Selected letters of Rebecca West
By: edited, annotated, and introduced by Bonnie Kime Scott.
Contributors: Scott, Bonnie Kime, 1944-
Series: Henry McBride series in modernism and modernity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 497
Subjects: West, Rebecca, Dame, 1892- -- Correspondence; Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence; Journalists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Description: "This collection of her letters 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 woman 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-483) and index.