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'''Rebecca West''' ([[1892]]-[[1983]]), British-Irish [[feminist]], political journalist, novelist, historian, actress and traveller, who ought to need no introduction. | '''Rebecca West''' ([[1892]]-[[1983]]), British-Irish [[feminist]], political journalist, novelist, historian, actress and traveller, who ought to need no introduction. | ||
One of her novels, ''Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy'' ([[1929]]) centers around a telepathic protagonist who is able to read her lover's thoughts. | One of her novels, ''Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy'' ([[1929]]) centers around a telepathic protagonist who is able to read her lover's thoughts. | ||
Her definition of [[lunacy]] and [[idiocy]], which appears in the prologue of ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'' ([[1941]]), has been used by such feminist writers as [[Joanna Russ]] (in the essay "[[SF and Technology and Mystification]]", [[1978]]), and reads as follows: | Her definition of [[lunacy]] and [[idiocy]], which appears in the prologue of ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'' ([[1941]]), has been used by such feminist writers as [[Joanna Russ]] (in the essay "[[SF and Technology and Mystification]]", [[1978]]), and reads as follows: | ||
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[[category:1892 births]] | [[category:1892 births]] | ||
[[category:1983 deaths]] | [[category:1983 deaths]] | ||
[[category:Writers]] | [[category:Women writers by name]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:24, 9 August 2009
Rebecca West (1892-1983), British-Irish feminist, political journalist, novelist, historian, actress and traveller, who ought to need no introduction.
One of her novels, Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy (1929) centers around a telepathic protagonist who is able to read her lover's thoughts.
Her definition of lunacy and idiocy, which appears in the prologue of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), has been used by such feminist writers as Joanna Russ (in the essay "SF and Technology and Mystification", 1978), and reads as follows:
- "...the word "idiot" comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: they are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature."
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