Beach, Sylvia, 1887-1962
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1887 - 1962
Biography
Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), American-born bookseller, publisher, author, and translator
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Bryher papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 97
Abstract:
The papers document the personal life and literary career of Bryher. Her extensive correspondence includes letters from H. D., Robert MacAlmon, Kenneth MacPherson, Norman Holmes Pearson, Sylvia Beach, Norman Douglas, Horace Gregory, Islay Lyons, and Edith Sitwell, and from many other figures in the fields of literature, psychoanalysis, and film. There are manuscripts of many of her works, including fragments of an unpublished volume of autobiography; financial and personal papers;...
Dates:
1812-1980, bulk 1911-1978