“convincingly alive”: Daily Telegraph 24.10.58.
“You have made it sound so exciting”: Patrick Devlin to SB 13.11.58 SB archive HRC.
“jumping with joy”: Evelyn Gendel to SB, 16.4.58 SB archive HRC.
“A brilliant account”: Eugene Rostow to Robert Gottlieb Simon & Schuster publicity leaflet.
“is the book of my heart”: Dorothy Parker Esquire April 1959.
“I had to go back some way”: Pleasures and Landscapes p. 105.
“quiet, clean as whistles”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 20.6.58 SB archive HRC.
“We’ve had two dips each”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 31.8.58 Martha Gellhorn Archive HGARC.
“Eda will never decide anything”: Martha Gellhorn to SB 7.7.56 SB archive HRC.
“deeply alien and disturbing”: SB to Allanah Harper 9.7.58 SB archive HRC.
“I am so pleased they are here”: SB diaries 7.9.58 SB archive HRC.
“the hog slumber of Portugal”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 23.10.58 Martha Gellhorn Archive HGARC.
“a German and lower-middle-class”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 9.10.58 SB archive HRC.
“All Portuguese towns are pretty”: Pleasures and Landscapes p. 106.
“agreeable, fresh, plentiful”: ibid. p. 110.
“placid, kindly, patient”: ibid. p. 112.
“the Riviera rich”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 23.10.58 Martha Gellhorn Archive HGARC.
“expatriate jabber”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 24.6.59 SB archive HRC.
“You swing from her regularly”: Evelyn Gendel to SB 29.6.59 SB archive HRC.
“when all festivities are over”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 2.1.59 SB archive HRC.
“I’m fed up with being M’s poor relation”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 20.2.59 SB archive HRC.
“very comfortable, above all entirely quiet”: SB to James Stern 28.8.59 James Stern archive British Library.
“twelve people”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 3.4.59 SB archive HRC.
“I came back quivering with indignation”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 24.5.59 Martha Gellhorn Archive HGARC.
“Tomatoes growing nicely”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 13.6.59 SB archive HRC.
“A basket with 3 dozen young peas”: SB diaries 2.7.59 SB archive HRC.
“I ran for a saucer of milk”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 24.6.59 SB archive HRC.
“The material I am finding”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 31.10.59 SB archive HRC.
“My Austrian…[and] Swiss court experiences”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 8.11.59 SB archive HRC.
“by the fairness of their law courts”: In Conversation with Naim Attalah p. 9.
“Bavaria is the part of Germany”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 28.11.59 SB archive HRC.
“Paris grates more than ever”: SB to Evelyn Gendel. 6.12.59 SB archive HRC.
“Bad atmosphere in house”: SB diaries 6.12.59 SB archive HRC.
“Esther boit beaucoup”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 13.7.58 SB archive HRC.
“Ivre tous les soirs”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 15.1.59 SB archive HRC.
“devient très difficile”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 6.5.59 SB archive HRC.
“Personne peut vivre”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 24.1.58 SB archive HRC.
“Je suis très déprimée”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 20.3.59 SB archive HRC.
“Esther’s nearly fatal illness”: Janet Flanner to SB, 8.6.59 SB archive HRC.
“Gino et moi”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 1.9.59 SB archive HRC.
“he is cold”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 29.7.60 SB archive HRC.
“We’d like to help”: Robert Gottlieb to SB 5.2.60 SB archive HRC.
“I liked her very much”: author’s interview with Robert Gottlieb 13.6.11.
“an American brashness”: Evelyn Gendel to SB, 23.8.59 SB archive HRC.
“very fond of pleasure and comfort”: Tortoise and Turtle by Evelyn Gendel (Macdonald and Jane’s, 1965).
“T&T is your book”: Evelyn Gendel to SB 14.1.60 SB archive HRC.
“I never loved a dedication more”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 23.8.60 SB archive HRC.
“I love it”: Robert Gottlieb to SB 7.9.60 SB archive HRC.
“it seemed informed by moderation”: The Faces of Justice p. 125.
“powerful and original intelligence”: Sunday Telegraph 21.5.61.
“A new book by Sybille Bedford”: Pittsburgh Press 2.9.61.
“German Jewish banker’s daughter”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 27.5.60 SB archive HRC.
“Both the M[uir]s are so uncompromisingly”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 8.9.57 SB archive HRC.
“Toni is much the better of the two”: Evelyn Gendel to SB, 1.11.55 SB archive HRC.
“he would become imperious”: Christopher and His Kind 1929–1939 by Christopher Isherwood (Eyre Methuen, 1977) p. 185.
“We had huge Scotch tea”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 21.1.59 SB archive HRC.
“v. v. bright and well brought-up”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 23.8.60 SB archive HRC.
“Dear Sybille,” she wrote: Markie Robson-Scott to SB, 12.1.61 SB archive HRC.
“Instant, unalloyed, deep joy”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 1.10.60 SB archive HRC.
“NOW LISTEN TO ME”: Evelyn Gendel to SB 8.10.60 SB archive HRC.
“You do not often scold me”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 7.10.60 SB archive HRC.
“seemingly a man with little taste for fiction”: The Trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover p. 7.
“embarrassing to watch”: ibid. p. 30.
“unemotional, cool, undramatic”: ibid. p. 15.
“He had never in his life”: ibid. p. 58.
“I felt so desperately strongly about it”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 25.11.60 SB archive HRC.
“you are ours”: Robert Gottlieb to SB 10.3.61 SB archive HRC.
“wet, grey, cold, dreary”: SB to Solita Solano 4.2.61 Janet Flanner & Solita Solano archive, Library of Congress, Washington.
“Dawdle time away whining”: SB diaries 24.1.61 SB archive HRC.
“masterpiece, tour de force”: Manchester Guardian 23.6.61.
“is an amazing achievement”: James Stern to SB 22.2.61 SB archive HRC.
“I feel so much older”: SB to Allanah Harper 19.4.61 SB archive HRC.
“intact, incredible”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 17.4.61 SB archive HRC.
“a grade B acquaintance”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 14.5.61 SB archive HRC.
“She worries me”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 24.4.61 SB archive HRC.
“You’re a good friend”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 25.12.60 Martha Gellhorn Archive HGARC.
“Well,” Aldous replied:Aldous Huxley Vol. 2 p. 282.
“Only then, with no sense of urgency”: ibid.
“It was a curious and rather moving evening”: SB to Allanah Harper 26.6.61 SB archive HRC.
“how good it was to meet again”: Aldous Huxley to SB 3.7.61 SB archive HRC.
“Eva writes that he did not suffer”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 9.12.63 SB archive HRC.
“the greatest moral influence on my life”: International Herald Tribune 17.4.89.
“Aldous’s unfailing goodwill”: Aldous Huxley 1894–1963: A Memorial Volume p. 143.
“no counter lift in the evening”: SB to Solita Solano 5.11.61 Janet Flanner & Solita Solano papers, Library of Congress, Washington.
“I have now finished my novel”: SB to James Stern 8.4.62 James Stern archive British Library.
“my one attempt at fiction”: A Favourite of the Gods p. ix.
“down to the village”: ibid. p. 257.
“was a New Englander with a Harvard link”: ibid. p. xv.
“Lyre-horned oxen”: ibid. p. 28.
“I do think you are inclined”: James Stern to SB 12.1.62 SB archive HRC.
“technical perfection”: Allanah Harper to Cyril Connolly 5.2.62 Cyril Connolly archive McFarlin Library, Tulsa.
“Sibbie my hero”: Martha Gellhorn to SB 12.11.63 SB archive HRC.
“in itself the power”: Evelyn Gendel to SB 2.6.62 SB archive HRC.
“The book is wonderful”: Robert Gottlieb to SB 6.12.62 SB archive HRC.
“an exceedingly good novel”: Spectator 11.1.63.
“while capable of subtleties”: The Times 10.1.63.
“the design vanishes into a flashy stream”: New Statesman 11.1.63.
“Miss Bedford is often too consciously literary”: New York Review of Books 1.6.63.
“[that] drags and sags”: New York Times 8.4.63.
“It has been tremendously advertised”: Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh 23.12.62 The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh p. 470.
“Lovely first chapter”: Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford ibid. p. 471.
“I am very sick and sunk”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 5.1.63 SB archive HRC.
“I feel poisoned by these reviews”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 28.1.63 SB archive HRC.
“loud-mouthed and hostile”: SB to James Stern 19.1.63 James Stern archive British Library.
TEN: “THE TREMENDOUS TRIALS OF OUR TIME”
“I love the look of it”: SB to Solita Solano 15.7.62 Janet Flanner & Solita Solano papers, Library of Congress, Washington.
“We buy our food at Elsinore”: SB to Charlotte Wolff 20.7.62 SB archive HRC.
“She weighs 35 kilo”: SB to Allanah Harper 15.7.62 SB archive HRC.
“very conscious she was”: ibid.
“haute literature in a rather vieux jeux way”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 8.7.62 SB archive HRC.
“horrible, plebeian, ugly”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 29.10.61 SB archive HRC.
“I don’t like it”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 10.12.62 SB archive HRC.
“Esther…toujours très distante”: Katzi Nielsen to SB, 23.10.62 SB archive HRC.
“Elle m’a accusé de chose”: Katzi Nielsen to SB, 27.8.62 SB archive HRC.
“ces angoisses perpétuelles”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 28.4.62 SB archive HRC.
“I am afraid the situation”: Esther Murphy to SB, 26.8.62 SB archive HRC.
“a kind of monster”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 28.4.62 SB archive HRC.
“one of the stupidest women”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 4.4.62 SB archive HRC.
“Oh dear I shall miss her”: Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh 28.11.62 The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh p. 467.
“Esther was a large sandy person”: Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh 3.12.62 The Letters of Nancy Mitford p. 342.
“ta grande générosité envers moi”: Katzi Nielsen to SB 5.3.63 SB archive HRC.
“returned in a state of collapse”: Eda Lord to Tania Stern 6.12.62 James Stern archive British Library.
“What’s the use of being brilliant”: All We Know p. 134.
“The view from every window”: Eda Lord to Tania Stern 27.5.63 James Stern archive British Library.
“ravishing and no noise”: SB to Laura Huxley 21.2.63 Aldous & Laura Huxley archive University of California, Los Angeles.
“thirty-five miles from Venice”: SB to James Stern 23.2.63 James Stern archive British Library.
“the inside of a meat grinder”: SB to Solita Solano 5.6.63 Janet Flanner & Solita Solano papers, Library of Congress, Washington.
“large motor coaches”: SB to Elaine Robson-Scott 8.5.63 SB archive HRC.
“Below our bedroom windows”: SB to Solita Solano 26.5.63 Janet Flanner & Solita Solano papers, Library of Congress, Washington.
“we find ourselves again making beds”: Eda Lord to Tania Stern 27.5.63 James Stern archive British Library.
“She’s a kitten”: SB to Elaine Robson-Scott ?.6.63 SB archive HRC.
“no possibility of coming and going”: Eda Lord to Barbara Gamow 23.10.63 George & Barbara Gamow archive Library of Congress, Washington.
“Allanah is being so very very sweet”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 7.7.63 SB archive HRC.
“terribly. I love her more than anyone”: Evelyn Gendel to SB, 11.7.73 ibid.
“shutters closed from dawn to sinking sun”: A Compass Error introduction.
“a true cave”: SB Harper’s & Queen October 1982.
“This place is bliss”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 15.8.63 Martha Gellhorn archive HGARC.
“bare, clean and spacious”: SB to James & Tania Stern 15.10.63 James Stern archive British Library.
“No noise except cicadas”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 15.8.63 Martha Gellhorn archive HGARC.
“devastatingly sexually attractive”: unpublished typescript SB archive HRC.
“Not only the mean little voice”: ibid.
“festively decked out”: ibid.
“His presence came as a shock”: ibid.
“a kind of flat gloom”: ibid.
“what that sentence would have been”: ibid.
“a case of judicial murder”: Observer 30.4.89.
“strange, doomed business”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 31.7.63 SB archive HRC.
“Tortiss Tortiss Tortiss”: Evelyn Gendel to SB 14.12.63 SB archive HRC.
“Darling listen”: Evelyn Gendel to SB 27.12.63 SB archive HRC.
“rushed off feet”: SB to Allanah Harper 7.2.64 SB archive HRC.
“the most hideous town I have ever seen”: SB to Allanah Harper 15.2.64 SB archive HRC.
“2 TV sets & 4 telephones”: SB to Charlotte Wolff 23.2.64 SB archive HRC.
“Last night at dinner”: SB to Allanah Harper 15.2.64 SB archive HRC.
“I had five mortal weeks at Dallas”: SB to Tom Matthews 14.4.64 T.S. Matthews archive Princeton University Library.
“lying back in his chair”: “The Trial of Jack Ruby for the Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald” As It Was: Pleasures, Landscapes and Justice p. 200.
“bumbles about the scene”: ibid. p. 172.
“with a kind of dead-chicken stare”: ibid. p. 199.
“overflowing with humanity”: ibid. p. 211.
“the long-discarded forensic art”: ibid. p. 214.
“I did sixteen thousand words”: SB to Allanah Harper 5.4.64 SB archive HRC.
“The summary of the testimony”: Salt Lake Telegram 25.3.64.
“feted everywhere”: SB to the Sterns 2.5.64 James Stern archive British Library.
“has put on some weight”: SB to Robson-Scotts 14.4.64 SB archive HRC.
“I only know there’s red wine”: author’s interview with Robert Gottlieb 13.6.11.
“with the help of Manhattan’s finest butcher”: Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb p. 48.
“We had a good time together”: author’s interview with Robert Gottlieb 13.6.11.
“I miss you so much”: Evelyn Gendel to SB, 15.4.64 SB archive HRC.
“I’m deeply, intrinsically attached”: Paris Review no. 126 p. 246.
“I admired her so”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 3.7.65 SB archive HRC.
“absolute, pure, nameless”: Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead (Chatto & Windus, 2003) p. 393.
“the plain fact is I should never have married”: Martha Gellhorn to SB 30.7.55 SB archive HRC.
“One was very sad for M”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 28.9.63 SB archive HRC.
“The bliss of no housework”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 14.4.63 SB archive HRC.
“I love Billy Hughes”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 19.8.61 SB archive HRC.
“Sybille was obsessed with legal process”: author’s interview with Jenny Hughes 15.4.15.
“she was a very difficult person”: ibid.
“Sybille was furious”: author’s intervie
w with Anne Balfour-Fraser 3.6.10.
“I am devoted to Anne”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 31.10.63 SB archive HRC.
“it was so beautiful…so magical”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 10.12.64 SB archive HRC.
“like living with a caged tiger”: Eda Lord to Barbara Gamow 15.10.64 Gamow archive, Library of Congress, Washington.
“One could not ask”: A Compass Error Introduction.
“Katzi can work”: SB to Noël Murphy 12.1.67 SB archive HRC.
“sorting, packing, rearranging”: Eda Lord to Barbara Gamow 11.12.64 Gamow archive, Library of Congress, Washington.
“Yugoslavia was very exhausting”: SB to Martha Gellhorn 11.6.65 Martha Gellhorn archive HGARC.
“anything more would have been unendurable”: As It Was p. 230.
“It filled me with a sick loathing”: SB to Robert Gottlieb 5.3.65 SB archive HRC.
“the first large-scale case of its kind”: As It Was p. 218.
“Some killed by injecting disinfectant”: ibid. p. 225.
“What did you think these camps were for?”: ibid. p. 221.
“Each one was asked”: ibid. p. 225.
“a hot, grey, leaden morning”: ibid. p. 257.
“he said in a voice no longer quite audible”: ibid. p. 259.
“In my entire writing life”: SB to David Lyle 6.9.66 SB archive HRC.
“Relieved,” Sybille told Evelyn: SB to Evelyn Gendel 6.9.66 SB archive HRC.
“a story about people and events”: A Compass Error Introduction.
“Bedford is of course a brilliant writer”: Cass Canfield to Ian Parsons 20.12.63 Chatto & Windus archive University of Reading, Special Collections.
“Bob hit the ceiling”: Evelyn Gendel to SB, 20.5.64 SB archive HRC.
“don’t think up to it”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 30.5.64 SB archive HRC.
“Aldous’s influence on myself”: SB to Ian Parsons 12.8.64 Chatto & Windus archive University of Reading, Special Collections.
“something of the first importance”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 30.5.64 SB archive HRC.
“Do you realise”: SB to Robert Gottlieb 5.3.65 SB archive HRC.
“the use and organisation and writing”: SB to Evelyn Gendel 14.11.64 SB archive HRC.
“I am not going to be a tame biographer”: SB to Robert Gottlieb 5.3.65 SB archive HRC.
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