The princess with the golden hair
Subtitle: letters of Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson, 1933-1942
By: [edited by] John B. Friedman and Kristen M. Figg.
Contributors: Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.; Friedman, John Block, 1934-; Figg, Kristen Mossler, 1952-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison, [N.J.]; London ; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Waugh, Elizabeth Dey Jenkinson, 1894-1944 -- Correspondence.; Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 -- Correspondence.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Description: "The friendship between Elizabeth Waugh and the influential literary critic and novelist Edmund Wilson developed in the early 1930s and lasted until Waugh's death in 1944. Despite the cultural differences between them - Waugh as a self-educated and emotional visual artist and Wilson an analytical and learned critic with a historical bent - they developed a bond that was close if often troubled.".

"The present volume contains eighty-eight letters from Waugh to Wilson, plus several from him to her and to her mother after her death. Their correspondence - now at Yale University - is presented here with meticulously detailed annotation of persons and events referred to in the letters, providing a provocative look into the private thoughts of these two representative figures from the artistic and literary worlds of the later 1930s.

These letters, read against the portrayal of the fictional Imogen Loomis, offer fascinating insights into the process of artistic creation in the novel; taken with the biographical Introduction and Afterword, they can shed light on many of the problems faced by literary and artistic women of the upper middle class during the depression era."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.