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Loading... Rebecca West: A Lifeby Victoria Glendinning
None. Mentioned in The Princessa: Machiavelli for Women by Harriet Rubin.  velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 |  Rebecca West, 1892-1983. Victorial Glendinning writes well, but I don't think this is her best work. She knew Rebecca West at the end West's life, and she agreed to write a "short" biography of her. I had the feeling, reading this thing, that Glendinning had a hard time with that constraint. She ended up focusing on West's early years. I think it's a shame that Glendinning didn't write the full biography, since she had a sympathetic understanding for her difficult subject. I didn't much like West she she was a young 20-and 30-something. I had more respect for West as a personality as she aged. She lived to be 90 and evidently worked productively up until almost the end of her life. I read this biography mainly as background for reading West's correspondence. She was a prolific correspondent, writing somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 letters in her lifetime. Hers was probably the last generation of great letter-writers. (  ) labwriter | Feb 13, 2010 |
 Ms. Glendinning is an evenhanded advocate for the claims and counterclaims of both Rebecca and Anthony and, additionally, those of Wells, who was married and refused to divorce his wife, Jane, despite Rebecca's periodic ultimatums. . . There are many incoherences, disjunctions, pat psychological formulations and passages of mechanical narration in which time passes as on a clock. . . Much to her credit, however, she resists the temptation to depersonalize and mythologize West into a simple emblem of struggle against gender stereotypes, although that struggle is a vital part of the story.
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