Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1947.

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Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1947.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191731418

Contains the letters from Inez Brooks (wife of Charles Van Wyck Brooks) to her father- and mother-in-law (though most of them are addressed solely to Eleanor Stimson Brooks), as well as stepmother -in-law. The bulk of them fall between the years 1937-1939, when Charles and Inez were living in France.

23 items (48 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958681

University of Pennsylvania Library

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Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988,

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Inez Seibert was a modernist painter who married Van Wyck Brooks's son Charles Van Wyck Brooks in 1936, at the age of twenty-two. She continued to paint, under the tutelege Arthur Dove, before moving to France with Charles (1937-1939). On returning to the United States, she and Charles moved to California, where they had a son, Peter (b. 1940), and she continued to paint. By the late 1940s, Inez was showing symptoms of schizophrenia (then untreatable), and the couple separated and divorced (1948...

Brooks, Eleanor Stimson

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Eleanor Brooks was the mother of Charles Van Wyck Brooks, wife of Van Wyck Brooks. From the description of Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1926-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191732230 Eleanor Stimson had been a childhood friend to Van Wyck Brooks in Plainfield, New Jersey, where both grew up. In 1902 Eleanor left Plainfield to attend Wellesley College, from which she graduated in 1906. After her graduation she departed for Europ...

Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959

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Gladys Harding Brooks (1892-1959) was an Abilene, Kansas, native and a highschool friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the description of Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10610145 Gladys Brooks was Charlie Brooks's stepmother, the second wife of Van Wyck Brooks. From the description of Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1947-1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 19173223...