"No single form or genre was sufficient to contain her energy, and she lived as hard as she wrote. Rebecca West went everywhere, read everything, knew everyone. As Bonnie Kime Scott says in her editor’s introduction, "To read her letters in an informed way is to receive an education in the culture of the twentieth century.""
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Hilary Mantel, in "Conservative Rebel", a review of Selected Letters of Rebecca West, in The New York Review of Books (29 June 2000)
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1892 – 1983
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