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Rebecca West Today; Contempory Critical Approaches
by Bernard Schweizer, published by Delaware UP
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udpress/rebecca.htm

A collection of essays on this prolific writer, employs cutting-edge as well as more traditional methodological approaches, ranging from historicism to gender studies, to textual analyses, to philosophical engagements. The book also contains a useful section on teaching the works of Rebecca West.

BBC Broadcasts Radio Drama of The Fountain Overflows
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/classicserial/pip/lvo54/

West Society Publishes Collection of West Essays
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-36535-3

that Woman: Rebecca West Remembers On Stage
Played at manhattantheatresource ( 177 MacDougal Street, NYC) March 3-13, 2004.


Performed at the Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT, October 2004 and in Amsterdam, Netherlands, at the Spinoza Lyceum, the Polanen Theater, and Den Haag January and February, 2005.

that Woman, a new play by Carl Rollyson, Anne Bobby and Helen Macleod, explores the intriguing life of a woman described in a 1947 Time magazine cover story as “indisputably the world’s No. 1 woman writer,” and by Virginia Woolf as “a cross between a gypsy and a charwoman.” The play touches on both the public and the private life of West, particularly the stormy relationships with her lover H.G. Wells, their son Anthony, and her husband Henry. More...

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