Andrews, Dame Cicily Isabel, 1892-1983 (writer, critic, journalist and pseudonym Rebecca West)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1892 - 1983
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
File
Correspondence about an article by Rebecca West in the News Chronicle [about Alan Nunn May's trial and sentencing], 1946-05-13 - 1946-05-28
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ANMY 3/4
Scope and Contents
Comprising letters between Ralph Nunn May and Harold Kenwright (Harold Kenwright and Cox solicitors) about whether the article by Rebecca West was libellous; and a copy of a letter to Monty [?] from [Ralph Nunn May] sending a reply to Rebecca West's article [for publication].
Dates:
1946-05-13 - 1946-05-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Dame Rebecca West: review of 'The Second Empire', by Philip Guedalla
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9225/7/21
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century
politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Dame Rebecca West: 'The good German', review of 'Picturesque Spain' by K. Heilscher
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9225/7/22
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century
politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Letters from Rebecca West, 1930-1935
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8900/6/3/105-113
Scope and Contents
Opinions and suggestions about books; Guedalla offended (1934)
Dates:
1930-1935
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Rebecca West and her writing about Alan Nunn May in 'The Meaning of Treason', 1947-87 with some later undated notes
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ANMY 5/7
Scope and Contents
Containing typed and handwritten research notes and drafts by Alan Nunn May about Rebecca West including "The Meaning of Rebecca West" and "Dame Rebecca West and my Cephalic Index". Also contains copies of "His betrayal may harm us yet" by West in the Evening Standard (extract from 'The Meaning of Treason') (22 Dec 1947), pages from 'The Meaning of Treason' relating to Alan Nunn May [1947], and pages from 'Rebecca West: A Life' by Victoria Glendinning (1987) on subjects including...
Dates:
1947-87 with some later undated notes
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.