On this day in 1983 Rebecca West died at the age of ninety. Cicily Fairfield took her pseudonym from the outspoken heroine of Ibsen's Rosmersholm. From her early days writing about suffragettes to her last days writing about Watergate and McLuhan, she lived up to it -- as in "...I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
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