Lorna Gibb

West's World (eBook, ePUB)

The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Born Cicely Fairfield in 1892, as a young woman - and a budding actress - Rebecca West changed her name to that of the feminist heroine in Ibsen's play, Rosmersholm . West was a passionate suffragist, a socialist and fiercely intelligent and her long career as a writer began when she was barely out of her teens. As did her notorious affair with H.G. Wells, which resulted in a son, Anthony, whose relationship with his mother was, at best, stormy.

Perhaps best remembered for her classic account of pre-war Yugoslavia, Black Lamb, Grey Falcon, West was a towering figure in the British literary landscape. Lorna Gibb's vivid and insightful biography looks at the woman behind the reputation

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230771499
• Artikelnr.: 39865267

Autorenporträt

Lorna Gibb was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire and used to work as a professional dancer. She lectures at Middlesex University and is currently the Visiting Research Fellow in History at Essex University. In the past five years she's lived in four different countries but now lives in London with her husband and her two rescue cats from Qatar. Her biography of Lady Hester Stanhope was published to great acclaim in 2005.