Who couldnd cspan, want for more . Thank you so much for having me everyone who to possible, theing gracious paula matthews, the lively Monica Higgins who seems clocks run on time. Friends, thankr so very much. Myow me to introduce you to nist as it any fac were. Dorothy thompson on the right left. Becca west to your here they are at the height of careers in the 1930s. Their beauty if might add. They dont know it yet, but they are about to embark upon a selfdefining morality play. Can almost hear them talking another. Dorothy first with her high pseudo british accent, becky, dont you think it was divine intervention that swayed susan to write our story . Have repliedould drawl,best betty davis cock. Oppy let the old girl talk. About you dottie, i possiblyn she couldnt persona to polished the core. Right. They are both nonetheless, i am glad you are here and frankly that they are not. [laughter] begin. I burge researching the lind story i became aware of how periods between the defining
They were among the very first to recognize and articulate the threat of fascism that were sweeping through europe in the 1930s, while most of their colleagues, male or female, refused to acknowledge the blatant signs of nazi imperialism. West and thompson fought the only way they could, not on the military battlefield, but in the arena of ideas. Willing to risk everything and smashing literary and social icons in their wake, rebecca west made sicily was nothing if not icon. Sicily, the youngest of three daughters was born in 1892, in the outskirts of london. Her father, a gifted cartoonist and journalist, soon revealed to be a notorious gambler, thief and womanizer, abandoned their families when sicily was only 8 years old. Devastated, she was unable to recognize to reconcile, his apparent adoration with the pennery and shame into which his leaving had cast them. This, i believe, was the defining moment of her life. Her fathers betrayal forever destroyed her faith in people and in god
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