Rebecca West, Another Name-Changing Feminist

"I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is," wrote Rebecca West in 1913, "I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." The woman known as Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield. She then later changed her first name to Cicily, before finally taking her nom de plume from the name of a character in "Romersholm," a play by Henrik Ibsen.

Source: Richard Robinson, University of East Anglia. "Rebecca West." The Literary Encyclopedia. 19 Dec. 2003. The Literary Dictionary Company. 20 September 2007.