Word: rosmersholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebecca West was an actress first, a novelist and critic later. She was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, in County Kerry. She took the name Rebecca West from a part she played in Ibsen's Rosmersholm; her career came from the fact that she preferred her words to someone else...
...himself said, "Who could- examine me?" or, when asked if he was a Ph.D., "No," says he imperially, "I make them." Here was one of those happy mortals who would rather do what they are doing than anything else on earth, the catch being as Ibsen in "Rosmersholm" makes Ulric Brendl say of Peter Mortensgard, "He can do anything he will, for he will never will more than...