Editing Rebecca West (section)

===Early career and marriage===
West established her reputation as a spokeswoman for feminist and socialist causes and as a critic, turning out essays and reviews for ''[[The New Republic]]'', ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'', ''[[New York American]]'', ''[[New Statesman]]'', ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', and many more newspapers and magazines. [[George Bernard Shaw]] said in 1916 that "Rebecca West could handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely."<ref name="autogenerated1983">Linda Charlton, "Dame Rebecca West Dies in London, ''The New York Times'', 16 March 1983.</ref> During the 1920s, West began a lifelong habit of visits to the United States to give lectures, meet artists, and get involved in the political scene. She was a great friend of the novelist [[G. B. Stern]], and Stern and [[Clemence Dane]] stayed with her in America in 1924.<ref>''Nottingham Evening Post'', 4 August 1924, p.3.</ref> There, she befriended [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] founder [[Allen Dulles]], [[Charlie Chaplin]], [[Harold Ross]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'', and historian [[Arthur Schlesinger Jr.]], among many other significant figures of the day. Her lifelong fascination with the United States culminated in 1948 when [[Harry S. Truman|President Truman]] presented her with the Women's Press Club Award for Journalism, calling her "the world's best reporter."<ref name="autogenerated1983"/>

In 1930, at the age of 37, she married a banker, Henry Maxwell Andrews, and they remained nominally together, despite one public affair just before his death in 1968.<ref name=gibb/> West's writing brought her considerable wealth, and, by 1940, she owned a [[Rolls-Royce (car)|Rolls-Royce]] and a grand country estate, Ibstone House, in the [[Chiltern Hills]] of southern England. During [[World War II]], West housed Yugoslav refugees in the spare rooms of her blacked-out manor, and she used the grounds as a small dairy farm and vegetable plot, agricultural pursuits that continued long after the war had ended.