Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1946.

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Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191821827

Early contents address the years that Charles and Inez spent in France, later items relate to Inez's psychological problems and battle with schizophrenia. About half of the items are addressed to Inez.

13 items (45 leaves)

University of Pennsylvania Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6959196

University of Pennsylvania Library

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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 ...

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...

Seibert, Frederick L.

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Captain Seibert was the father of Inez Seibert Brooks, first wife of Charles Van Wyck Brooks. He was a captain with the U.S. Navy, and traveled extensively, often leaving his daughter without a parent in her life (her mother being dead). From the description of Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1937-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 191821827 ...