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Bedford, Sybille

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Bedford, Sybille (1911– ), author, whose best-known novel, The Legacy (1956), is a sophisticated account of the complex matrimonial and financial affairs of a wealthy German family in the years immediately preceding the First World War. A Favourite of the Gods (1962) and A Compass Error (1968), both novels, were followed by a two-volume biography of A. Huxley (1973, 1974). The autobiographical Jigsaw was published in 1989.

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