SASSOON AUTOBIOGRAPHY: autograph draft and corrected typescripts of Siegfried Sassoon's first volume of autobiography, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, published in 1928, with original drawings for the illustrated edition of 1929, and related material; ... 1913-1946

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SASSOON AUTOBIOGRAPHY: autograph draft and corrected typescripts of Siegfried Sassoon's first volume of autobiography, Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, published in 1928, with original drawings for the illustrated edition of 1929, and related material; ... 1913-1946

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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...