Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1927-1943.
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Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.
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Charles Van Wyck Brooks was the son of American writer Van Wyck and Eleanor Stimson Brooks, born in California in 1912. After attending Williston Academy in Massachusetts, he attended Harvard University. Charles spent his post-college years traveling, engaging in literary work for the Federal Writers Project and translating the private journals of Henri Frederic Amiel (published 1935). In 1936, he married young modernist painter Inez Helena Seibert, and the two lived in France for several years ...
Stimson, Eleanor Maxson,
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Eleanor Maxson Stimson was the mother of Van Wyck Brooks's first wife, Eleanor Kenyon Stimson Brooks and also of Polynesian anthropologist Frank Stimson. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1911-1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191731402 Eleanor Maxson Stimson was the mother of Eleanor Stimson Brooks, the first wife of Van Wyck Brooks. An artist herself, she married fellow artist John Ward Stimson, although they later div...
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...
