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COVER STORY: Secret history She has been called the finest woman writer of the 20th century. Bruce Chatwin and Stephen Spender were fans. She counted Aldous Huxley among her most intimate friends. Her love life was complex. Yet at 93, Sybille Bedford rema

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040523
Author:Andrew Barrow

Sybille Bedford is not a tabloid name. Nor even a name to toss about lightly at Hampstead dinner parties. I have never heard her softly persuasive voice on the radio or seen her lively animated face on television. However colourful her love life, it has never been plastered across the newspapers. Nothing is known about her short- lived marriage and next to nothing about her love affairs with women. Nor does she serve these days on those highbrow committees that once occupied so much of her time. For all the self-revelation in her writings, for all the feathers in her cap, Sybille Bedford is ...

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