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Record 20631

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised anger in me, instead of grief. '
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 3 Apr 1935
Country: France
Time: n/a
Place: city: Paris
specific address: 129 Rue Saint-Dominique VIIe
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Edith Sitwell
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 7 Sep 1887
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: Poet
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: France
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Friedrich Engels
Title: Conditions of the Working Classess in England
Genre: Social Science, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: First published in 1844
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20631  
Source - Print  
  Author: Edith Sitwell
  Editor: Richard Greene
  Title: Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1998
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 145
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene (ed.), Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell (London, 1998), p. 145, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20631, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

This is an extract from a letter to Walter Greenwood (3rd April 1935) in which Edith compares the effect on her of Engel's book compared to that of Walter Greenwood's novels.

 

 

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