The Princess With the Golden Hair: Letters of Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson, 1933-1942

by Elizabeth Waugh, Edmund Wilson, John Block Friedman

Written between 1933 and 1942, Elizabeth Waugh's letters to Edmund Wilson record a courtship both intellectual and romantic. These letters offer fascinating insights into the process of artistic creation in the novel; taken with the biographical introduction and critical afterword, they shed light on the problems faced by a woman torn between the safety of a comfortable upper-class existence and the fulfillment of artistic aspirations.

180 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2000

About the author

Elizabeth Dey Jenkinson Waugh

Reviews

[Judith · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read it because of an interest in Elizabeth Waugh's connection to my great aunt Flora Nash Demuth, who illustrated her young peoples' book, Simon Bolivar. Went on to read Memoirs of Hecate County, since Elizabeth was the model for Imogen Loomis, Edmund Wilson's love interest. The two together give a sense of time and place of upscale, literary Connecticut and New York in the 1920s and 30s.