Rebecca West: A Woman in History

“She knew that real power is rarely given—it’s mostly taken,“ says Helen Atkinson of her great-aunt Rebecca West, author of such classics as Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and The Return of the Soldier. West became a suffragist as a teenager and hoped that her distinguished career as a writer and public intellectual would encourage women throughout the world to pursue their own dreams. Watch Helen Atkinson, herself an accomplished journalist, discuss her great-aunt’s legacy and lifelong devotion to the cause of women’s rights.