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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Rebecca West
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(name adopted by Cicily Fairfield, 1892–1983, DBE 1959) Writer and committed feminist; her chosen name belongs to the independent-minded heroine of Ibsen's play Rosmersholm. Though author of many novels (her first, in 1918, being Return of the Soldier), she excelled in books where she took the role of reporter – Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) on Yugoslavia or The Meaning of Treason (1949), based on the Nuremberg trials. Her robust review of a book by H.G. *Wells advocating free love (Marriage 1912) led to a meeting and to the ten-year love affair which was the dominant relationship of her life.
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