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Rebecca West

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Profession
Activist
Died
Mar 15, 1983
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
England
About
Feminist intellectual, journalist and author whose most famous politically and historically-themed works include Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, The New Meaning of Treason, and A Train of Powder. She was also a novelist; her debut work of fiction, The Return of the Soldier, was adapted into a 1982 film starring Alan Bates and Julie Christie.
Family
She married Henry Maxwell Andrews when she was thirty-seven years old and had a ten-year affair with author H.G. Wells that produced a son, Anthony West. She allegedly also had affairs with Charlie Chaplin and newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook.

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