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A World-Class Writer and a World-Class Freeloader Sybille Bedford, at right, in Normandy with Allanah Harper, a lover turned friend and provider.Credit.via the Sybille Bedford Estate Buy Book ▾ By Brooke Allen By Selina Hastings Sybille Bedford is not a household name, but among her coterie of admirers in Europe and America she is held in high esteem. Her reputation rests upon a relatively slim literary output over the course of a long life (1911-2006): notably, four works of fiction (three earlier novels were deemed inferior and remain unpublished), a memoir, books about travel and international legal processes, a biography of her friend Aldous Huxley that is still the definitive one, and sundry journalism. Her first published novel, “A Legacy” (1956), rescued from possible oblivion by Evelyn Waugh’s encomium in The Spectator, has become something of a cult classic. She had limitations as a writer, the most significant being that she really had only one story to tell: t

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