These notes were collected in celebration of Rebecca West's birthday: December 21, 1892 Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield DBE, known as Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, was a British author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ~ Rebecca West In Harriet Hume: a London Fantasy , Rebecca West transports her reader with a tale of the polar opposites of mind and spirit, love and power (published 1929) READ the entire novel online Meet Rebecca West