Sydney Schiff

AL 's three sisters all married socially prominent Jewish husbands. The youngest, Violet , married art collector and patron Sydney Schiff ; their circle included Wyndham Lewis , T. S. Eliot , Katherine Mansfield , and Proust .

This summer she spent a holiday at Varengeville in Normandy, with Naomi Mitchison . She also met Sydney Schiff (at Chesham in Buckinghamshire), and on 31 August 1925 had her first meeting with...

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...

SB 's letter-writing kept her in touch with communities of writers and was a personal lifeline during her isolated years in China. Among her correspondents were Virginia Woolf and Sydney Schiff (Stephen Hudson). Some letters...