Beautiful Shadow (97 page)

21
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

22
Ibid.

23
Julia Richman, Isabel Richman Wallach,
Good Citizenship,
American Book Company, 1908, p. 70.

24
Diana Cooper-Clark, ‘Patricia Highsmith – Interview’,
The Armchair Detective
, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1981, p. 318.

25
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

26
PH, ‘Books in Childhood’, January 1986, SLA.

27
PH, Answers to Q&A for
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
, sent 18 November 1981, SLA.

28
PH, ‘Books in Childhood’, SLA.

29
PH,
Strangers on a Train
, p. 238.

30
PH, Cahier 9, transcription of 1935 diary, SLA.

31
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 1 September 1970, SLA.

32
Ibid.

33
PH, Cahier 26, 2/3/62 , SLA.

34
PH, Letter to Mary Highsmith, 12 April 1966, SLA.

35
Ibid.

36
PH, Cahier 26, 2/3/62, SLA.

37
Interview with Muriel Mandelbaum, 10 February 2000.

38
PH, Cahier 9, transcription of 1935 diary, SLA.

39
Edna McKnight, ‘Jobs – For Men Only? Shall We Send Women Workers Home?’,
Outlook and Independent
, 2 September 1931, quoted in Lillian Faderman,
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
,
Penguin Books, London, 1992, p. 96.

40
Karl Menninger,
The Human Mind
, Knopf, 1930, p. 252.

41
‘Women’s Personalities Changed by Adrenal Gland Operations’,
New York Times
, 28 October 1935, quoted in Faderman,
Odd Girls
, p. 100.

42
Sheila Donisthorpe,
Loveliest of Friends
, Charles Kendall, New York, 1931, quoted in Faderman,
Odd Girls
, p. 101.

43
New York Evening Graphic, 1931, ‘Lesbian Herstory Archives’, quoted in Faderman,
Odd Girls
, p. 107.

44
Faderman,
Odd Girls
, p. 119.

45
PH, ‘First Love’,
Sunday Times Magazine
, 20 January 1974.

46
Bettina Berch, ‘A Talk with Patricia Highsmith’
,
15 June 1984, SLA.

47
PH, Cahier 20, 10/20/50, SLA.

48
PH, Cahier 9, transcription of 1935 diary, SLA.

49
Ibid.

50
PH, ‘Between Jane Austen and Philby’, written for
Vogue
, September 1968 , SLA.

51
Ibid.

52
Eugene Wood, ‘What the Public Wants to Read’,
Atlantic Monthly
, October 1901, quoted in Stuart E. Knee, ‘Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy’,
Contributions in American History
, No. 154, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut & London, 1994, pp. 117,118.

53
Diana Cooper-Clark, ‘Patricia Highsmith – Interview’,
The Armchair Detective
, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1981, p. 320.

54
PH, Diary 8, 24 March 1948, SLA.

55
PH, Cahier 9, transcription of 1935 diary, SLA.

56
Mary Baker Eddy,
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, 1991, p. xi.

57
Kaleidoscope
, BBC Radio, 17 March 1975.

58
‘Patricia Highsmith: A Gift for Murder’,
The South Bank Show
, LWT, 14 November 1982.

59
PH, ‘Primroses Are Pink’,
The Bluebird
, Fall 1937, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 57, Julia Richman High School archives, Julia Richman Educational Complex, New York.

60
PH, ‘Primroses Are Pink’, manuscript, SLA.

61
Ibid.

62
‘Why I Write’, sent to
Libération
, Paris, 22 February 1985, published March, SLA.

63
PH, Cahier 30, SLA.

64
PH, Cahier 23, 10/16/54, SLA.

65
PH, Cahier 7, 6/7/42, SLA.

66
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 1 September 1970, SLA.

67
Ibid.

68
Interview with Vivien De Bernardi, 23 July 1999.

69
PH, Diary 5, 18 October 1943, translated from the German by Ulrich Weber, SLA.

70
Gary Carey, Judy Holliday,
An Intimate Life Story
, Robson Books, London, 1983, p. 12.

71
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

72
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 29 August 1970, SLA.

73
Cahier 9, transcription of 1938 diary, SLA.

74
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, The Writer Inc., Boston, 1966, p. 20.

75
PH, Cahier 13, 12/23/45, SLA.

76
‘The Book Programme’,
BBC2
, 11 November 1976.

77
Cahier 9, transcription of 1938 diary, SLA.

78
Ibid.

5 The taste of freedom 1938–1940

1
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

2
Donald Glassman, Letter to the author, 12 May 2000.

3
Joan Dupont, ‘The Mysterious Patricia Highsmith’,
Paris Metro
, 9 November 1977.

4
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, The Writer Inc., Boston, 1966, p. 73.

5
Kate Kingsley Skattebol, Letter to the author, 6 May 2001.

6
Virginia Gildersleeve, ‘The Dean’s Report, 1926’, p. 7, quoted in Marian Churchill White,
A History of Barnard College
, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954, p. 124.

7
Ibid.

8
Julia Treacy Wintjen, ‘An Interview with Miss Sturtevant’,
Barnard College Alumnae Monthly
, January 1939, p. 12, BCA.

9
Professor Cabell Greet,
A Minute on the Death of Miss Ethel G. Sturtevant
, 28 October 1968, BCA.

10
PH, Diary 10, 23 May 1950, SLA.

11
PH, Cahier 1, 1938, SLA.

12
PH, ‘Quiet Night’,
Barnard Quarterly
, XIV: 1, Fall 1939.

13
PH, Cahier 4, 9/19/40, SLA.

14
PH, Cahier 2, dated February 1940, SLA.

15
PH, Cahier 2, 5/27/40, SLA.

16
PH, Letter to Arthur Koestler, 21 March 1966, KA, MS 2385/3.

17
Ibid.

18
Frederick R. Benson,
Writers in Arms: The Literary Impact of the Spanish Civil War
, New York University Press, New York, 1967, University of London Press, London, 1968, p. 52.

19
W.H. Auden, quoted in Hugh Thomas,
The Spanish Civil War
, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1961, p. 222.

20
C.S. Lewis, ‘The Nabara’
, Overtures to Death and Other Poems
, Jonathan Cape, London, 1938.

21
PH, Letter to Patricia Losey, 20 May 1992, SLA.

22
Benson,
Writers in Arms
, p. 276.

23
Auriol Stevens, ‘Private Highsmith’,
Guardian
, 29 January 1969.

24
PH, Cahier 9, dated August 1939, SLA.

25
Interview with Rita Semel, 6 April 2000.

26
Joseph R. Starobin,
American Communism in Crisis, 1943
–1957, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 23.

27
Lewis Miller, quoted in James Oneal & G.A. Werner,
American Communism: A Critical Analysis of Its Origins, Development and Programs
, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1947, p. 248.

28
Earl Browder, ‘The Way Out of the Imperialist War’, 13 January 1941, published in his book of collected speeches,
The Way Out
, International Publishers Co. Inc., New York, 1941, p. 199.