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Chapter 2 - Rebecca West's anti-Bloomsbury group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Marina MacKay
Marina MacKay
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis
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It is difficult, from the point of view of a small offshore island, to develop a sense of the integrity of Europe … My grandfather's generation left these British islands only to fight in wars, wars which redrew the map of continental states but left the returning islanders lonely and injured and confirmed in their separateness.

Hilary Mantel, ‘No Passes or Documents are Needed’ (2002).

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

Neville Chamberlain, broadcasting on 27 September 1938.

Hailed by Time as ‘indisputably the world's No. 1 woman writer’ when she appeared on its cover in 1947, Rebecca West is a surprisingly obscure figure compared to Woolf. Closely involved with the suffragist New Freewoman before it became the modernist standard-bearer The Egoist (it was she who employed Ezra Pound), and a board member of the socialist journal Time and Tide, West had an interwar career with at least as much to say as Woolf's about the histories of radical cultural production in Britain.

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Modernism and World War II , pp. 44 - 70
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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