Only Poet And Other Stories
By (Author) Rebecca West
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
1st January 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.912
Hardback
358
Width 3mm, Height 6mm
A volume of Rebecca West's short fiction. Including the novella "The Only Poet", found amongst her papers after her death, this selection comprises unpublished work and published stories gathered from British and American journals and periodicals.
Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, taking her pen name from an Ibsen play. A feminist and social reformer, she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1959. Her only son, Anthony West (1914-1987), was the son of author H.G. Wells.