Dame Rebecca West died on 15 March 1983. She was ninety.

Rebecca West

“It is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”-Rebecca West

“It isn’t only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”-Rebecca West, The Birds Fall Down

Fun Fact: Rebecca West and H.G. Wells were the parents of author Anthony West (1914-1987). The latter had a contentious-at-best relationship with his mother, who never married his much-adored father. Let’s just say that his childhood was a sticky, complicated mess and leave it at that.