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Dame Rebecca West1892 - 1983
Dr. Josephine Letitia Denny Fairfield1885 - 1978
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Charles Fairfield and Isabella Mackenzie (1)
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Elizabeth Ewan
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Extract of Cecily Fairfield biography from "The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004"

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(Continued from page 115) ...Panther West was born in 1914. Single motherhood was difficult. and the relationship deteriorated; her relationship with Anthony West (1914-87), later a writer himself, also grew recriminatory.

Her first published book, a study of Henry James (1916), was followed by a novel, The Return of the Soldier (1918). Eight novels were published during her lifetime, notably The Fountain Overflows (1936), drawing on childhood memories. Three more were published posthumously. Rebecca West's non-fiction is particularly celebrated. She contributed to many British newspapers and journals, among them the feminist journal Time and Tide in the 1920s. A frequent visitor to the USA, she also wrote for major American publications including Herald-Tribune. Her greatest achievement is widely considered to be Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), drawing on visits to Yugoslavia in the 1930s and inspired especially by the history, culture and people of Serbia, suffering Nazi occupation when the book was published. Her near contemporary, Scottish ethnographer Margaret Hasluck, n. Hardle (1885-1948), was carrying out sustained, scholarly work in nearby Albania in the 1930s, and later advised Special Operations Executive (Clark 2000). Rebecca West's reporting of Nuremberg and other treason trials resulted in the highly regarded The Meaning of Treason (1947) and A Train of Powder (1955). Opposed to fascism, she also spoke out against Communism in the 1950s and is often seen as having grown increasingly reactionary. Yet, helpful to Emma Goldman in the 1920s, she was also generous to other artists and refugees later. Her awards included the Order of Saint Sava 1937, CBE 1949, Chevalier of French Legion d'honneur 1957, DBE 1959 and honorary degrees from New York and Edinburgh universities. She was a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Rebecca West knew many famous people, but always felt an outsider. Her liaisons, some with well-known men, including Max (Lord) Beaverbrook, were generally unhappy. However. marriage in 1930 to a scholarly banker, Henry Maxwell Andrews (1894-1968), lasted until his death. Scottish connections continued through family contact and visits; she also participated in the 1962 Edinburgh Festival forum on censorship and attended the Scottish Writers' Conference that year. She appeared in the film Reds (1981) two years before her death, aged 90. She described herself as 'half-Scottish and half-Irish' (letter to Harold Guinzberg, Nov. 1936. West 2000. p. 315). Family Memories, written during her last two decades and published posthumously, shows her lasting preoccupation with 'the rich textures of my mother's ancestry as manufactured by the Scottish tradition' (West [1987] 1992, p. 17). Re-publication and the discovery of unpublished material by this important, wide-ranging writer have helped reinvigorate her reputation. CA"

References follow: Beineckt Rare Book and Manuscript library. Yak Univ. I.:hwy. Rebecca Wee papaw. McFsrlin library. Special Collo:non. !Armament. Univ. of Tulsa. Oklahoma: Rebecca West papers. Wm. R. Works as above. and (.91a) The Young £'Mw: Wnsings elk/yens Was mei -s7. selected and edited by J. Marcus. (aeon) Seined Gwen I Reboot War B. K. Scott. at &salsa Gin-dinning (Stint Bid.) and www.repid-o.uk Andrew. C. (icon) 'Feminine apace. feminine sentence in C. Anderson and A. Christianson (eels) Sawa, Want) Finiw locos so tobos:(3aok. M. (moo) 'Margaret Macron Reluck% in J. B. Alkock and A. Young. Week lands as Gny Felon: Devine. E (at) (e01.) The Antal Oiitony • ONIt .9t-3: Clendinning Y. (PAW) Mono Wool (Select BIM.: source material): SlaclEumid. H. (tem) Tenoning Rebecca West in Edinburgh*. reprinted in B. K. Scott (Ai) (199o) The Gender of Modem:at Ops6) 'Snarl Scottish Action Id'. reprinted in A. Riach (rd. and intro) (IWO Coneonsonny Smnish Smith: °DNB (loo() (set Andros..., C. klir. i latluck. Margaret): Rollyson. C F- 0990 RCM" Scat. B. K. Beni) Re firming Mowlemion The %Warn of nuA WWW(met) vol. VIII, 1981-1990.

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The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004, by Elizabeth Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds, page 115, as scanned and reprinted at GoogleBooks. Retrieved 30 Mar 2016.

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