Correspondence with Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1939-1943.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Birkeland, Joran.

Contributor:

Brooks, Charles Van Wyck.

Brooks, Inez Helena Seibert, 1914-1988, addressee.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

15 items (45 leaves)

Contained In:

Van Wyck Brooks Papers. Folders 3315-3316

Place of Publication:

1939-1943.

Biography/History:

Joran Jacobine Birkeland was a friend to the Brookses and translated Norweigian works for E. P. Dutton. She married Charlie's friend D'Arcy McNickle in 1926, and had a daughter, Antoinette (Toni) with McNickle before he divorced her in 1938. Throughout the late 1930s (including before her divorce) she was involved with Murray Goodwin, another of Charlie's friends. Birkeland then left Goodwin in 1940, after which she spent some time in Norway and continued with her translation work.

Summary:

The majority of this correspondence is from 1940, and relates to Birkeland's difficult relationship and break-up with writer Murray Goodwin. Items also include the pages from Birkeland's diary about her last weeks with Goodwin in New Orleans, as well as a copy of Goodwin's poem "Twelfth Night," inscribed by Birkeland to Inez Brooks, in honor of the birth of son Peter Brooks.

Notes:

Contains 2 items (8 leaves) from Charles Brooks.

OCLC:

191732204