Notes on Novels

From 1920 to 1922, Rebecca West wrote a series of short essays for The New Statesman entitled "Notes on Novels," in which she reviewed new work by some of the major novelists of her period.[1]


8/28/1920- E.M. Forster and others


10/2/1920- Norman Douglas, F. Brett Young


10/9/1920- May Sinclair, The Romantic, others


12/17/1921- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow


3/18/1922- Katherine Mansfield, J.D. Beresford


7/8/1922- D.H. Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod


9/2/1922- Edith Wharton, The Glimpses of the Moon


11/4/1922- Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room


12/2/1922- May Sinclair, Ann Severn and the Fieldings


  1. G. Evelyn Hutchinson, A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951 (New Haven: Yale University Library, 1957), pp. 58-60. See Hutchinson for a fuller bibliographic record of the following.