Evidence: | 'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me when I returned here on Thursday. ( I was delayed in London)the book has a beauty that makes one feel calmed -(at the moment I am reading the section on literature) as one feels calmed when looking at certain statues and listening to certain music. I am deeply grateful to you for sending it to me, and am proud to have it inscribed in your handwriting.
I wish you could know what pleasure I feel in reading this book. Whilst I was in London, I found people tearing about, and declaring they could read nothing but newspapers. What a strange way of trying to retain one's sanity! For myself, I have been reading Nashe's Lenten Stuffe, and now I am reading Alexandria.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 1 Sep 1939 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | specific address: Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, Yorkshire | ||||||||||
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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: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | E M Forster |
Title: | Alexandria: A History and Guide |
Genre: | History, Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1938 2nd edition London ( First published 1922) |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 21811 | |
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Author: | Edith Sitwell | |
Editor: | Richard Greene | |
Title: | Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 212 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edith Sitwell, Richard Greene (ed.), Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell (London, 1998), p. 212, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=21811, accessed: 20 April 2024 |
This is an extract from a letter to EM Forster dated 1st October 1939. Edith also refers to meeting EM Forster at the London Library 'the other day' and to tell him that she is sending him separately a copy of her own book "I Live Under a Black Sun" which she begs him to believe is not a novel but an allegory. |
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