Rebecca West: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	Cicily Isabel Andrews • Cicily Isabel Fairfield • Dame Rebecca West
Born	December 21, 1892 • London • England
Died	March 15, 1983 (aged 90) • London • England
Notable Works	“A Train of Powder” • “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” • “Harriet Hume” • “Selected Letters of Rebecca West” • “The Birds Fall Down” • “The Fountain Overflows” • “The Meaning of Treason” • “The Return of the Soldier” • “The Thinking Reed”

Photos

See All Images →

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

default image

Helen Maria Williams

English writer

default image

Malcolm Lowry

British novelist

Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.

Caroline Norton

British writer

Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

British writer

Quiller-Couch, 1943

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

British writer

Vita Sackville-West

British writer

Daniel Defoe, engraving by M. Van der Gucht, after a portrait by J. Taverner, first half of the 18th century.

Daniel Defoe

English author

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson

English novelist

The man who invented Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

English author

Iris Murdoch poses for a portrait in a striped shirt and dark sweater against a plain light background.

Iris Murdoch

British writer and philosopher

Tom Stoppard wearing a dark suit, blue checkered shirt, and green tie, looking at the camera against a dark background.

Tom Stoppard

Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter

Portrait of feminist novelist Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

English author

Walpole, Horace

Horace Walpole

English author

default image

Arthur Ransome

English author

default image

Arthur Koestler

British writer

default image

Frederick Forsyth

British author

default image

J.R. Ackerley

British writer and editor

Photograph of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Acme newspicture 1939.

Women in Art and Literature: Who Said It?