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West, Dame Rebecca, (1892-1983), critic and novelist

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Alternative name(s):
  • Cicily Isabel Fairfield (Real name)
Surname: West
Pretitle: Dame
Forenames: Rebecca
Gender: Female
Date: 1892-1983
History: Married Henry Maxwell Andrews in 1930
Biography: ODNB link for West, Dame Rebecca (1892-1983), Critic and Novelist, real name Cicily Isabel Fairfield
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P134408 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P9641 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Dame Rebecca West
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and literary MSS
University of Tulsa: McFarlin Library
2
1894-1975: literary ms, corresp, personal papers
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library
See Guide 1976; Yale University Gazette vol 59 1984 pp111 198
3
1945-64: corresp with Lord Beaverbrook
Parliamentary Archives
NRA 19284 Aitken
4
letters to Arnold Bennett
UCL: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
NRA 14722 Ogden
5
1959-68: corresp with Sir BH Liddell Hart
King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
NRA 19291
6
letters to Robert and Sylvia Lynd and Dora Marsden
British Library, Manuscript Collections
See Annual Return 1993
7
corresp with Dora Russell
International Institute of Social History
See Guide 1989
8
1912-13: corresp with Charles Sarolea
Edinburgh University Library, Heritage Collections
9
1921-27: letters to Francis and Jessica Brett Young
University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
NRA 13482 Young
10
1960: corresp and statements rel to trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
Bristol University Information Services: Special Collections
NRA 39438
11
1918-1968: corresp and literary ms
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
12
1913: corresp
Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library