Literary
STERN
(G.B., 1890-1973, Author)
Autograph Letter Signed 'with initials, to Catherine Dupré,
(1927-2014, Writer and Artist) saying that she envies her Vienna, & thank you for your candles & prayer for me at St Stefan's, they can join the little miraculous Medal which Marguerite Steer bought me from there with 'Wien' scratched on it - I can wear it now because my long silver chain from a friend in Philadelphia has safely arrived. This letter is getting too geographical! It's chiefly to say that I saw Father Mangan yesterday at Farm Street & we talking about you... and instructed me & Pamela Frankau he said he'd certainly like a talk with Desmond..., continuing at length about arranging a meeting and going on that Father M. has to have a long rest... he's terribly lame from his wound in the 1914 War & not at all strong, easily gets exhausted. But he is a darling, full of fun and humour, well-read & with an intellectual not a sentimental approach to Catholicism, very human and scornful of people who 'split hairs' over what doesn't really matter..., 8 sides 8vo., D1 Albany, W1, no date but circa
Item Date: 1954
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Background
G. B. Stern, born Gladys Bertha Stern wrote many novels, short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism. Her family was never terribly religious and Stern herself disliked the word 'Jew' and preferred 'Israelite'. In 1947 she converted to Catholicism. She wrote about the conversion in 1954 in All in Good Time. Catherine Dupré and her husband Desmond converted to Catholicism in 1955. Pamela FRANKAU (1908-1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1942.
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