The E.M. Forster Collection. 1918-1959.

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The E.M. Forster Collection. 1918-1959.

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The E.M. Forster Collection contains correspondence written to Siegfried Sassoon and covers a span of 41 years from 1918-1959. Most of the letters were written in 1923. The letters discuss diverse topics including personal philosophical views, books and other material being read, literary criticism of Sassoon's work, Sassoon's criticism of Forester's works, Forester's ideas on writing. The collection includes a few references to World War II: the role of the writer, the discomforts, and the destruction of the London Library. Other writers mentioned in the collection include Thomas Hardy, E.T. Lawrence, G. Lowes Dickinson, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Hugh Walpole and others.

.6 linear feet.

Wichita State University, Ablah Library

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Wichita State University, Ablah Library

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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...

Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970

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