Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1936-1941.

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...

Weston, Theodore, Mrs.

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Mrs. Weston incribes herself as "Aunt" on her letters to Van Wyck Brooks (possibly "Aunt Kitty"), and is familiar with Plainfield, New Jersey. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, [Between 1932 and 1954]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190863687 "Aunt Kitty" (or perhaps "Aunt Kelly") Weston was related to Van Wyck and Charles Van Wyck Brooks and is familiar with the family and their lives. From the description of C...

Corney, Mary M.

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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 ...