biography
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West, Dame Rebecca
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pseudonym of Cicily Isabel Andrews, née Fairfield
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| female
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| lived:
| (1892–1983)
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| biography:
| Novelist and critic, born in London, UK. Educated in Edinburgh, she was for a short time on the stage, and took her name from the character she played in Ibsen's Rosmersholm. She is best known for her studies arising out of the Nuremberg war trials: The Meaning of Treason (1949) and A Train of Powder (1955). Her novels include The Judge (1922), The Thinking Reed (1936), and The Birds Fall Down (1966). Her long association with H G Wells produced a son, the critic and author Anthony West (1914–87). She was created a dame in 1959. |
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