Rebecca West, who had a long, productive, and exciting life, was born on 21 December 1892:

Rebecca West
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
Rebecca West, who had a long, productive, and exciting life, was born on 21 December 1892:
Rebecca West
“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
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.