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Sylvia was one,\u201d wrote No\u00ebl Riley Fitch, author of <em>Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation<\/em> (1983), in the most recent introduction to a collection of Beach\u2019s letters. Yet to characterize Beach as merely a \u201cmidwife\u201d and to remember her primarily for bringing into being the work of Great Men is to misrepresent her and the everyday work of her shop. 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