| Evidence: | 'I have just read Love on the Dole and His Worship The Mayor, books which were sent me by a friend a short time ago, for the second time, and I feel impelled to tell you that I know you to be, not only a born writer, but a great writer (and I never use that word lightly). I do not know when I have been so deeply, so terribly moved and so strongly impressed as I have been these two superb novels.
How on earth you succeeded in combining the beauty and the unutterable tenderness of these books, their beautiful and inevitable form, with such an apalling indictment of our present damnable civilisation, I don't know. You are such a writer that the terrible tragedies of starvation, the people whose poignant and shining love, love between boy and girl, between husband and wife, love between friends, seem to me to have been known all my life.....' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1935 and 18 Mar 1935 | ||||||||||
| Country: | France | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Paris specific address: 129 Rue Saint-Dominique VIIe |
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| 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 |
| Author: | Walter Greenwood |
| Title: | Love on the Dole |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1933 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 20629 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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=20629, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| Love on the Dole was Walter Greenwood's first novel. This is an extract from a letter to Greenwood in which Edith comments at some length and in which she tells him she will be writing to Siegried Sassoon (who is quoted) to ask if he has read the books. Such a letter does not appear in this collection. |
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