So excited for Day 1 of #HopefulModernisms! I'll be speaking today on melancholy spaces of hope in Rebecca West. Looking forward to catching up in person with my lovely BAMS colleagues after so long 😀

One for fans of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon below. Mark Polczynski has created a poster mapping West's travels through Yugoslavia. You can access the poster here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?… The poster can be used and shared in any format. Thanks Mark!

Exciting to receive my copy of ‘Law and Literature: The Irish Case’ wonderfully edited by Eugene Mc Nulty & Adam Hanna ! My chapter looks at Rebecca West’s ‘The Meaning of Treason’, in relation to ideas of Irish political crime.

Love that there's now a plaque to Rebecca West in Edinburgh. Well done @UoE_genderED Story here: iash.ed.ac.uk/news/unveiling…

This is going to be a thread of interesting lines from 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵, Rebecca West’s 1931 collection of her writings for the 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘮𝘢𝘯, almost all of which are incidental scraps.

📣New Post: Philip Ward discusses the fractured relationship between Rebecca West and popular 1920s novelist Michael Arlen. Read it here: rebeccawestsociety.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/a-f…

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide." — Rebecca West This is currently being debated on Wikiquote for a Quote of the Day later this month and one guy's argument against it is that infanticide isn't that bad, really.

On 7th January 1928, the Thames flooded much of central London. Find out more here: bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…

Analysis of Rebecca West's Indissoluble Matrimony Rebecca West Society literariness.org/2022/09/22/ana…

“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.” Rebecca West, born 130 years ago today, on storytelling as a tool of survival themarginalian.org/2017/03/15/reb…

'Though religion may offer nothing whatsoever to account for the universe, it is unsurpassed as an analysis and synthesis of what is the core of a continent's experience' - Rebecca West, 'The Strange Necessity' (1928) #1920s #Europe #Religion

This 1925 sketch of Rebecca West is part of the online exhibition 'We will remember them' hosted by the University of Delaware: exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/we-will-rememb… #1920s

Always worth going back and reading stuff again. Or for some of you, for the first time #dalespender 5 indomitable women - Dora Russell, Hazel Hunkins Hallinan, Mary Stott, Constance Rover, Rebecca West talk to Dale Spender about the woman's movement which spanned the 20th c

It's Rebecca on Film! The BFI have made the silent film 'They Forgot to Read the Directions', with intertitles written by West, free to view online. Note: contains racist and sexist portrayals. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…

You can read my short article on a rediscovered short story by Rebecca West in the latest issue of The Modernist Review: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/in-… #rebeccawest

The Booker Prizes Rebecca West Society. A novel as beautiful as its cover.

If you're interested, you can read my article (for free!) 'The Politics of Pleasure in Rebecca West's "The Strange Necessity"' in the latest issue of The Space Between @ spacebetweenjournal.org The Space Between Rebecca West Society