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At the conference, participants could browse through recent books by West, about West, or that included chapters on West. Here's what was available.

Survivors in Mexico
By Rebecca West. Ed. Bernard Schweizer. Yale, 2003.

The Sentinel
By Rebecca West. Ed. Kathryn Laing. Legenda, 2002.

Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic
By Bernard Schweizer. Greenwood, 2002.

Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women's War Fiction
By Debra Rae Cohen. Northeastern UP, 2002.

Radicals on the Road: English Travel Writing in the 1930s
By Bernard Schweizer. University of Virginia Press, 2001.

British Women's Comic Fiction 1890-1990: Not Drowning But Laughing
By Margaret D. Stetz. Ashgate, 2001.

Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Ed. Bonnie Kime Scott. Yale, 2000.

Paradoxical Feminism: The Novels of Rebecca West
By Ann V. Norton. International Scholars Publications, 2000.

Rebecca West: A Life
By Carl Rollyson. Scribner, 1996.

Refiguring Modernism, Volume One: The Women of 1928. Volume Two: Postmodern Feminist Readings of Woolf, West, and Barnes
By Bonnie Kime Scott. Indiana UP, 1995.

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Recent works by West Society members:

"Stepping Westward"
A n article about the West conference. By Dennis Drabelle. In The Washington Post, October 12, 2003. His review of The Sentinel appears in the same edition.

"Immortal Goodness: Ideas of Resurrection in Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"
By Marina MacKay. In Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Spring 2002.

"Dystopian Modernism versus Utopian Feminism: Burdekin, Woolf, and West Respond to the Rise of Fascism"
By Loretta Stec. In Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators' Seduction. Ed. Merry M. Pawlowski. Palgrave, 2001.

"Her Own Lambs and Falcons"
Review of Selected Letters of Rebecca West. By Georgette Fleischer. In The Nation,
April 24, 2000.

"Writing Around Modernism: May Sinclair and Rebecca West"
By Lyn Pykett. In Outside Modernism: in Pursuit of the English Novel 1900-30. Edited and introduced by Lynne Hapgood and Nancy L. Paxton. Macmillan, 2000.

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Other recent works:

"Unfinished Business and Self-Memorialization: Rebecca West's Aborted Novel Mild Silver, Furious Gold"
By Lynette Felber. In Journal of Modern Literature, Winter 2001-2002.

Perspectives of Four Women Writers on the Second World War: Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle, and Rebecca West
By Zofia Lesinska. Peter Lang, 2002.

"Oedipus and the Modern Aesthetic: Reconceiving the Social in Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier"
By Susan Varney. In Naming the Father: Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature. Ed. Eva Paulino Bueno, Terry Caesar, and William Hummel. Lexington, 2000.

"Travel Writing as Autobiography: Rebecca West's Journey of Self-Discovery"
By Vesna Goldsworthy. In Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography. Ed. Alison Donnell and Pauline Polkey. Macmillan, 2000.

The MLA bibliography lists nine dissertations since 1997 that include studies of Rebecca West.