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Barbara
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What a fascinating woman. And another bad mother to go along with Queen Victoria who I'm also reading about.
Aug 28, 2016 06:55PM Add a comment
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Dawn
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Wow! The Panther and the Cougar are definitely a shocking pair! I wanted to read some of Rebecca's fiction next and I am at the point where the biographer is actually summarizing the books to show connections I her real life ! This ind of is like reading spoilers ! The summaries are a bit confusing without having read the novels ! I do love the accounts of Rebecca's witty criticism!
Jul 22, 2016 01:29PM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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Rebecca West: A Celebration - Autumn 1977
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Nigeyb
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Nov 1968 Henry dies in his sleep
Jul 13, 2016 04:58AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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The never to be completed book on Mexico sounds like a winner - back home Albert the lab does of bowel cancer.
Jul 13, 2016 03:52AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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South Africa and much more besides
Jul 12, 2016 03:08PM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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The Fountain Overflows
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Nigeyb
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Heritage, Anthony's novel, what a hoohah
Jul 10, 2016 09:43AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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Summer 1955, Anthony and Lily visit Rebecca and Henry
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Nigeyb
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Anthony and Kitty split. Just reading about this family is exhausting.
Jul 09, 2016 02:37PM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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Seems as though Rebecca's non-fiction is really quite something. Truman Capote claimed she invented the non-fiction novel. Meanwhile Anthony wants to write a biography of HG Wells in which he is explicit that HG was his father. Needless to say Rebecca is not too keen.
Jul 09, 2016 08:09AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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The affair with Francis Biddle
Jul 08, 2016 03:26PM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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Rebecca accepts an offer to cover the Nuremberg war crime trials
Jul 08, 2016 09:20AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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Rebecca's portrait of William Joyce aka Lord Haw Haw, in The Meaning of Treason (her study of the post-war treason trials), is, according to Rollyson, The single best biography she was ever to write, a brilliantly perceptive study of a disaffected spirit.
Jul 08, 2016 03:18AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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Rebecca wishes that Anthony was dead. Kitty remembered Rebecca screaming insults at her. What a terrible parent she was.
Jul 07, 2016 04:13AM Add a comment
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Nigeyb
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This is really two books in one: an in depth look at Rebecca's work, and also a detailed account of Rebecca's life. I am enjoying the story of her life much more than the detailed analysis of every book she ever wrote.
Jul 06, 2016 05:04AM Add a comment
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