Sydney and Violet: Their Life with T S Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis
✍ Scribed by Klaidman, Stephen
- Book ID
- 108545237
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385534109
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✦ Synopsis
A long overdue biography of the power couple that nurtured and influenced the literary world of early twentieth-century England
"I write primarily to pay homage to a beloved friend, but also in the hope that some future chronicler of the history of art and letters in our time may give to Sydney and Violet Schiff the place which is their due."
--T. S. Eliot, in a letter appended to Violet Schiff's obituary, Times of London*, July 9, 1962*
Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary ...