Rebecca West
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Women in Love
- 13 November 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 9 July 1921 Lawrence's notoriety was well established by the time this appeared and he had been living abroad for some years. He always had defenders in England, though, and here West (1892-1983) firmly declares herself one of them. Her own life was unconventional enough: she was H G Wells's lover. The John Collier she refers to without enthusiasm was a leading portrait painter, while Sarah Gamp is a character in Martin Chuzzlewit. Selected by Brian Cathcart
