Adrienne Monnier

SB and Adrienne Monnier translated Dorothy Richardson 's About Punctuation in January 1935. This was printed in the first issue of the new revue Mesures. Mesures was managed by Adrienne Monnier with Jane Van Meter

Reviewing the collection, Kathryn Hughes found SB 's usual style characterised by a kind of polite chirpiness, with even faintly slangy expressions—jazzed up, my stars, corking—marked by scare quotes, and Beach's...

In 1937, SB and Adrienne Monnier translated Bryher 's Paris 1900. Bryher thanked SB by saying it was the only writing of mine I have ever read with pleasure thanks to your translation.

Bryher 's Paris 1900, a booklet on her childhood visit to the World Exhibition in that city that year, was published. Drafted in English, it was translated into French and distributed by Sylvia Beach

She writes in her introduction, c'est une gageure de faire tenir dix ans de vie littéraire sur quatre murs (it is an impossible task to hold ten years of literary life within four walls)...