A legacy sybille bedford

The Kaiser's Germany is the setting of Sybille Bedford's first and best-known novel, in which two families -- one from solid, upholstered Jewish Berlin, the other from the somnolent, agrarian Catholic South -- become comically, tragically, irrevocably intertwined. "Each family," writes the author, "stood confident of being able to go on with what was theirs, while in fact they were playthings. A Legacy is a semi- autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford first published in It depicts a fictionalized version of the marriage of her parents and the troublesome relations of their two families. Early years First steps Professional growth Public recognition Peak period Later years Public interest Professional activity Media attention
Sybille Bedford (–) was born Sybille von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, Germany, to an aristocratic German father and a partly Jewish, British-born mother.