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...married, a prolific author of verve and renown. She was 19, single and unknown. When their affair ended ten years later, three people had been wounded beyond measure or retribution. But it was not for want of trying. In his day, H.G. Wells railed against his ungrateful mistress Rebecca West. She in turn portrayed herself as the suffering Other Woman, 15 forced to bring up their illegitimate son, Anthony West, on a restricted income. Now, at the age of 69, Anthony has weighed...
...first time. In 1955, West described his unhappy early life in Heritage, an autobiography masked as a novel. Rebecca West (1892-1983) blocked its publication in England, and in a new introduction to a paperback reissue of Heritage, the author bitterly recalls "my mother's passionate desire to do me harm." Given this bias, one could hardly expect a dispassionate recollection of times past. But H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life is more than the defense of a neglected author. It is a kind of intellectual's Mommie Dearest, a serious chronicle that uses Rebecca West...
...biographer's view, Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a genius with a powerful physical presence. His foresight, combined with a generous, romantic spirit, made him irresistible to women and children and, indeed, to much of the reading public. Rebecca West, by contrast, was a woman of sharp beauty, "wit, acute observation . . . and a wild paranoia." Through the ten years of their romance, she tells friends of various humiliations: Wells ignores her, he suffers from fits of maniacal rage, he becomes childishly dependent. But the author says, "I cannot believe a word . . . they are inventions," and then goes...
...Rebecca Downs plays the shepherdess Phyllis, with whom all the peers fall in love. She has a petulant soprano voice that warbles beautifully while she reveals her character's spoiled naivetes. She spins a web that entraps not only the nobles and the half-mortal, Strephen (Jay Kelly), but also her aged guardian, the Lord Chancellor (Dennis Crowley...
...think this new emphasis has been more toward administration than classroom teaching," says Rebecca Beardshaw, a masters student who wants to be an elementary school teacher...