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Also Known As Dame Rebecca West • Cicily Isabel Fairfield • Cicily Isabel Andrews
Born December 21, 1892 • London • England
Died March 15, 1983 (aged 90) • London • England
Notable Works “A Train of Powder” • “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” • “Harriet Hume” • “Selected Letters of Rebecca West” • “The Birds Fall Down” • “The Fountain Overflows” • “The Meaning of Treason” • “The Return of the Soldier” • “The Thinking Reed”

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Noël Coward
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British novelist
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
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Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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Vita Sackville-West
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Samuel Richardson
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Tom Stoppard
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Walpole, Horace
Horace Walpole
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Arthur Ransome
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Iris Murdoch
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Arthur Koestler
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