Editing Rebecca West (section)

===Death===

[[File:Rebecca West Grave Brookwood.jpg|thumb|right|West's grave in [[Brookwood Cemetery]]]]

West suffered from failing eyesight and high blood pressure in the late 1970s, and became increasingly frail. Her last months were mostly spent in bed, at times delirious and other times lucid; she complained that she was dying too slowly.<ref name="Rollyson 1996 427"/> She died on 15 March 1983, and is buried at [[Brookwood Cemetery]], [[Woking]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Rebecca West |work=Necropolis Notables |publisher=The Brookwood Cemetery Society |url=http://www.tbcs.org.uk/rebecca_west.htm |access-date=23 February 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611062216/http://www.tbcs.org.uk/rebecca_west.htm |archive-date=11 June 2011  }}</ref>

Upon hearing of her death, [[William Shawn]], then editor in chief of ''The New Yorker'', said:
{{blockquote|Rebecca West was one of the giants and will have a lasting place in English literature. No one in this century wrote more dazzling prose, or had more wit, or looked at the intricacies of human character and the ways of the world more intelligently.<ref name="autogenerated1983"/>}}

She is honoured with a [[blue plaque]] at Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, her childhood home which also provided the setting for her novel ''The Judge''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Six Scotswomen 'overlooked' by history to be honoured |url=https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/six-scotswomen-overlooked-history-be-honoured-2001943 |website=The Scotsman |date=27 February 2020 |access-date=28 April 2020}}</ref>