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Stephen Hudson

1868–1944

A British novelist and translator who wrote under the name Stephen Hudson, he moved in lively artistic circles in England and France while building a literary career of his own. His work came out mainly in the 1910s through the 1930s, blending fiction with the perspective of a well-connected patron of the arts.

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War-time Silhouettes

War-time Silhouettes

by Stephen Hudson

About the author

Born Sydney Schiff, he published fiction and translations under the pen name Stephen Hudson. He was a British writer whose books appeared across the early 20th century, and he is also remembered for his place in the wider cultural life of the period.

Schiff came from a wealthy family, which gave him the freedom to support the arts as well as practice them. Reliable sources describe him as a patron with friendships across literary, artistic, and musical circles in both England and France, a setting that helped shape the world around his writing.

He died on 29 October 1944. Though not as widely known today as some of the figures around him, Stephen Hudson remains an interesting example of an author who stood at the meeting point of literature, translation, and artistic society in the decades before and between the world wars.