Cicely (changed to Cicily) Isabel Fairfield (December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983), better known by her pen name Dame Rebecca West, DBE, was a British-Irish suffragist and writer famous for her novels, literary criticism, travel literature and for her relationship with H. G. Wells. A prolific, protean author, she wrote for The New Yorker , The New Republic , The Sunday Telegraph , and The New York Herald Tribune . She also was an important correspondent for The Bookman .
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