"No writer played less to the gallery. Often shy, she could nevertheless tell marvellously funny stories about Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Edith Wharton or the fastidious Huxleys in India, offered a meal of chocolates, ice cream, dumplings stuffed with curried mice. One remembers a sturdy, trousered figure, bright blue eyes, effective and observant, the clipped voice quickening at an ungenerous remark or deference to some fashionable fraud. Always she treasured "that sense of lighter heart, deep-grooved pleasures, daylight and proportion". Her memoir, Quicksands (2005), revived interest in the writer, and her elegant, insightful work."
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Sybille Bedford
, (née Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck; 16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born, English novelist, memoirist, and journalist. Her journalism deals with travel, food and wine, and dramatic courtroom trials. She was elected in 1964 a Fellow of the and in 1994 a . She was appointed in 1981 an Officer of the .
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