The JudgeMP3 CD, 19 July 2016

It was not because life was not good enough that Ellen Melville was crying as she sat by the window.

Rebecca West (1892-1983) was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, taking her pen name from an Ibsen play. A feminist and social reformer, she was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1959. Her only son, Anthony West, is the son of author H. G. Wells.