Sybille Bedford
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Sybille Bedford, OBE was a German-born English writer of non-fiction and semi-autobiographical fiction books. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award.
Bedford in 1989
A Legacy
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A Legacy is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford first published in 1956. It depicts a fictionalized version of the marriage of her parents and the troublesome relations of their two famil
Sybille Bedford
…Evelyn W. Gendel, who left her husband for Bedford and became a writer and editor herself. In the 1950s Bedford became Martha Gellhorn's confidante. A Legacy, Bedford's second book and first novel, was published in 1956 and televised by the BBC in 1975. It was described by Francis King as "one of the great…
1957 UK edition (publ. Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Cover art by Philip Gough