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Photo: No known restrictions on publication.1792.The Parisian beau monde in the garden of the Palais Royal – still the most popular spot to stroll, gossip and flirt in 1792. The garden was opened to the public in the 1780s. The lower classes and ‘women of ill-repute’ congregated in the shops and cafés under the arcades, while the upper echelons of society met beneath the canopy of trees in the garden.   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Sydney and Violet: 2of4: Their Life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the Excruciatingly Irascible Wyndham Lewis Hardcover – Deckle Edge, September 3, 2013. by Stephen Klaidman (https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Klaidman/e/B001IQUJYC/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1)   (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sydney-Violet-Excruciatingly-Irascible-Wyndham/dp/0385534094/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sydney+and+violet+amazon&qid=1608418378&s=books&sr=1-1 Largely forgotten today, Sydney and Violet Schiff were ubiquitous, almost Zelig-like figures in the most important literary movement of the twentieth century. Their friendships among the elite of the Modernist writers were remarkable, and their extensive correspondence with T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Proust, and many others strongly suggests both intimacy and intellectual equality. Leading critics of the day considered Sydney, writing as Stephen Hudson, to be in the same literary league as Joyce, Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence. As for Violet, she was a talented musician who nurtured Sydney's literary efforts and was among the first in England to recognize Proust's genius and spread the word. Sydney and Violet tells the story of how the Schiffs, despite their commercial and Jewish origins, won acceptance in the snobbish, anti-Semitic, literary world of early twentieth-century England, and brings to life a full panoply of extravagant personalities: Proust, Joyce, Picasso, Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and many more. A highly personal, anecdote-filled account of the social and intellectual history of the Modernist movement, Sydney and Violet also examines what divides the literary survivors from the victims of taste and time.