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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Violet Schiff
Violet Schiff
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Ada Leverson
AL
's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands.
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Burkhart, Charles.
Ada Leverson
. Twayne, 1973.
19
The youngest,
Violet
, married art collector and patron
Sydney Schiff
; their circle included
Wyndham Lewis
,
T. S. Eliot
,
Katherine Mansfield
, and
Proust
.
View reference
Speedie, Julie.
Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson
. Virago, 1993.
239-40
Friends, Associates
Katherine Mansfield
Other friends of
KM
's included
Sydney
and
Violet Schiff
(met in April 1920), her cousin
Sylvia Payne
,
Beatrice Hastings
, and
Anne Estelle Rice
. She also, with D. H. Lawrence and Frieda...
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