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Stephen Hudson
1868–1944
A British novelist, translator, and arts patron writing under a pen name, he moved in lively literary circles while publishing fiction shaped by personal experience. His work is remembered for its psychological focus and for bringing part of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece into English.
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War-time Silhouettes
by Stephen Hudson
About the author
Born Sydney Schiff in 1868, he published most of his fiction as Stephen Hudson. Reliable sources describe him as a British novelist and translator whose books appeared from the 1910s through the 1930s, and also as a patron of the arts with close ties to literary and artistic circles in England and France.
His early novel Concessions was published under his own name, while later work, including War-Time Silhouettes, appeared under the Stephen Hudson pseudonym. He is especially noted for psychologically minded, partly autobiographical fiction, and for translating Marcel Proust’s Time Regained into English.
Hudson died on October 29, 1944. Although he is not as widely read now as some of his contemporaries, his career still stands out for the mix of fiction, translation, and personal connection to the modernist world.