{"product_id":"war-time-silhouettes-hudson","title":"War-Time Silhouettes by Stephen Hudson","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Stephen Hudson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Hudson (1868 - 29 October 1944) is a pseudonym of the British novelist and translator Sydney Schiff  whose work was published in the 1910s  '20s  and '30s. With a substantial income from his commercially successful family  Schiff was a patron of the arts  with friendships in the musical  artistic and literary circles of England and France.Schiff was born in London  the illegitimate child of Alfred George Schiff (c.1840-1908)  a stockbroker  and Caroline Mary Ann Eliza Cavell  née Scates (1842-c.1896). The precise date of his birth is unknown  although his family celebrated his birthday on 12 December. After schooling at Wellington College he worked in Canada and the USA  where he met Marion Canine  whom he married in 1889. The marriage was unsuccessful and ended in separation and eventually (1911) divorce.With a substantial income from his wealthy family  Schiff turned to patronage of the arts and to writing fiction. He published his first novel  Concessions (1913) under his own name  but for his later books he took the pen name Stephen Hudson. In 1911 he married for the second time. His second wife was Violet Zillah Beddington (1874-1962). She had earlier (1896) been wooed unsuccessfully by the composer Arthur Sullivan  and Hudson used elements of that relationship in his 1925 novel Myrtle.Schiff divided his time mostly between London and the south of France. He was the host at a celebrated party in Paris on 18 May 1922  when Marcel Proust met James Joyce (without the slightest rapport); other guests included Sergei Diaghilev  Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso. The occasion was the first night of Stravinsky's Renard. Schiff tried unsuccessfully to get Picasso to paint a portrait of Proust.In the early 1920s Schiff was in touch with major modernist figures  and a patron of Wyndham Lewis's The Tyro. Lewis \"repaid\" the support by satirising Schiff as Lionel Kein in The Apes of God (1930). Schiff also introduced John Middleton Murry to Joyce; though Joyce later gave the impression that Katherine Mansfield  Murry's wife  showed more understanding of Joyce's Ulysses. He and Violet also befriended T. S. Eliot and his wife  Vivienne  and Frederick Delius. Earlier  in 1918  Schiff had helped finance Osbert Sitwell's periodical Art and Letters. Later the Schiffs knew Edwin Muir and Wilma. Schiff kept up a long correspondence with Aldous Huxley  which has been published.Using his customary pen name  Stephen Hudson  Schiff translated the twelfth volume of Proust  \"Time Regained\"  completing the Scott-Moncrieff version; Sodome et Gomorrhe II was dedicated to him and Violet. Céleste  a story of Schiff's  was published in The Criterion in 1924. In it Proust appears as the character Richard Kurt. Proust reciprocated by helping Hudson's novels achieve French translation.In 1934 Schiff and his wife settled in Dorking in south east England. Their house was hit by a stray German bomb in August 1944  the shock of which may have contributed to Schiff's death from heart failure two months later  at the age of 75. Violet survived him  living until 1962.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52798825857304,"sku":"9798890967749","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52798825890072,"sku":"9798890967848","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9798890967749.jpg?v=1790924820","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/war-time-silhouettes-hudson","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}