Editing Rebecca West (section)

===Affairs and motherhood===
In September 1912, West accused the famously libertine writer [[H. G. Wells]] of being "the Old Maid among novelists." This was part of a provocative review of his novel ''[[Marriage (novel)|Marriage]]'' published in ''Freewoman'',<ref>{{Cite journal |last=West |first=Rebecca |date=19 September 1912 |title=Marriage |url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:518928/PDF/ |journal=The Freewoman a Weekly Humanist Review |volume=2 |issue=44 |pages=346–348 |via=Modernist Journals Project}}</ref> an obscure and short-lived feminist weekly review. The review attracted Wells's interest and an invitation to lunch at his home. The two writers became lovers in late 1913, despite Wells being both married and twenty-six years older than West.<ref>Ray, Gordon N. ''H.G. Wells & Rebecca West'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974), pp. 1–32</ref> Their 10-year relationship produced a son, [[Anthony West (author)|Anthony West]], born on 4 August 1914. Wells was behind her move to Marine Parade, [[Leigh-on-Sea]] in Essex, where she lived between 1917 and 1919.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Howeson |first1=Louise |title=The house in Leigh where Dame Rebecca West lived with HG Wells' love child |url=https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/23098897.house-leigh-dame-rebecca-west-lived-hg-wells-love-child/ |website=Eastern Daily Press |date=5 November 2022 |access-date=7 November 2022}}</ref><ref>Gibb, Lorna ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bd4-AwAAQBAJ&dq=%22rebecca+west%22+%22leigh+on+sea%22&pg=PA66 The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West]'' (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2014), pp. 66, 70</ref> Their friendship lasted until Wells's death in 1946.

West is also said to have had relationships with [[Charlie Chaplin]], newspaper magnate [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook|Lord Beaverbrook]],<ref>{{harvnb|Rollyson|1996|pp=100, 115}}</ref> and journalist [[John Gunther]].<ref name="schlesinger199704">{{Cite magazine |last=Schlesinger |first=Arthur Jr. |date=April 1997 |title=A Man From Mars |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/04/a-man-from-mars/376839/ |magazine=The Atlantic  |pages=113–118}}</ref>