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.
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I love her remark about one’s virtues that always get you in trouble. Would that be another way of saying, “No good deed goes unpunished”?
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I think there are multiple interpretations, and that is certainly one of them. 🙂
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Is this the lady that HG met in San Francisco? When he chased after Jack the Ripper, after JtR used HG’s time machine to escape capture. Because she went back in time with him at the end of the movie.
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This is why I married you, Sir Chef. The answer is “no,” by the way…but your reference is weird and awesome.
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