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

Written between 1933 and 1942, Elizabeth WaughOs 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.