SB's father was a dynamic Presbyterian minister who drew powerful parishioners into his fold. In Princeton, New Jersey, the Reverend Sylvester Woodbridge Beach became the pastor for Woodrow Wilson and other history-makers...
Reception
Sylvia Beach
SB took the award as a sign that she was confirmed as French. When her father found out he told her, I am so proud of you that I am maudlin.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Residence
Sylvia Beach
SB and her family moved back from Paris to Princeton, New Jersey, where Sylvester Woodbridge Beach was appointed minister of First Presbyterian Church.
Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Textual Production
Sylvia Beach
SB sent this essay from Paris to her father to be typed. He offered to make corrections that her mother described as ministerial.
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Fitch, Noel Riley. Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. W. W. Norton, 1983.
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Eleanor Beach discreetly took the essay to someone else to...