| Evidence: | 'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the strange thing is, it is entirely a writer's madness. I mean no one but a writer or artist of some sort would find significance in such small things.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 28 Jul 1914 and 31 Dec 1914 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Harrogate county: Yorkshire specific address: Park House, 21 Park Gate |
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| Reader: | Edith Sitwell |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 17 Sep 1887 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | August Strindberg |
| Title: | The Inferno |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18643 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Edith Sitwell | |
| Editor: | Richard Greene | |
| Title: | Selected letters of Edith Sitwell | |
| Place of Publication: | London ( Virago Press) | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 18 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter to her brother Osbert Sitwell 1914. No date of the month given but a Thursday likely to be sometime after 28th July, the date of the previous letter in this collection. Osbert was serving as a Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards and was sent to France in December 1914 In this letter Edith expresses her fervent hope that he will not 'have to go'.Edith was staying with Inez Chandos-Pole who was married to a cousin. She also laments the condition of her mother, Lady Ida Sitwell,who between 1913 and 1915 was embroiled in a series of law suits. The letter is generally one of lament. |
| Citation: | Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene (ed.), Selected letters of Edith Sitwell (London ( Virago Press), 1998), p. 18, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18643, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Note. This is not Dante's Inferno. The Editor's notes indicate that the text referred to is an autobiographical work by August Strindberg. This appears to express a genuine instinctive response to the text rather than representing an extract from any critical review of the text. |
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