by Victoria Glendinning · tapa dura · ISBN 9780297790877
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«Rebecca West: A Life» is the biography of Rebecca West written by Victoria Glendinning, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in hardback (288 pages, in English).
Victoria Glendinning reconstructs the life of Rebecca West: her activism in the suffragette movement, her relationship with H. G. Wells and her career as a novelist, critic and travel writer. The narrative shows a woman who broke with the conventions of her time and whose personal and literary trajectory reflects the great social changes of the twentieth century.
The work, published in London in 1987, consists of 288 pages and includes 16 pages of plates outside the text.
It will interest readers of literary biographies and those who want to learn about the role of women in British culture and society in the twentieth century.
Victoria Glendinning is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography.
