He served as the literary executor for the works of Rebecca West.
They had provoked Rebecca West to make more than one violent intervention.
Rebecca West (with whom he had a short affair in 1927) called him "a boudoir athlete".
Rebecca West was many times as bad though.
Rebecca West, as always, marked out her own independent path.
Rebecca West saw the error in that equation 50 years ago.
"But whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple," Rebecca West wrote in 1928.
Authors such as Rebecca West used her work to produce literature that supported revolution.
There have been two plays about Rebecca West produced since 2004.
But an adequate appraisal of Rebecca West ought to pay at least as much attention to the literary and the political.