Rebecca West - West -- Wells to Watergate

On this day in 1983 Rebecca West died at the age of ninety. Cicily Fairfield took her pseudonym from the passionate, outspoken heroine of Ibsen's Rosmersholm; from her early days writing about suffragettes to her last days writing about Watergate and Marshall McLuhan -- a seventy-year career of novels, essays, journalism, literary criticism, and non-fiction books on a range of topics – she lived up to it. More