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Theresa Thornycroft (1853 – July 1947) was an English sculptor and painter. Biography. Born Theresa Georgina Thornycroft, she was a member of the inventive and artistic branch of the Thornycroft family.
- Gladness and Good Luck
- Sportsman to Soldier
- Hell Let Loose: The Somme
- War Poet
- The Slog Up to Arras
- Poor Heroes!
- Games of Ghosts
- Fictionalized Reality, Essayized Autobiography
- Life’S Illuminings
David Sassoon (1792–1864) Letter to Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co. Bombay, 24 January 1844 Siegfried Sassoon’s great-grandfather David Sassoon was born in Baghdad but moved his family and business interests to Bombay, in British India, around 1830. The family firm prospered hugely in the trade with China in cotton and opium, and diversified into ma...
David Thomas (1895–1916) Letter to Siegfried Sassoon Llanedy, Pontardulais, 26 August 1915 Photograph of David Thomas July 1915 David Cuthbert Thomas, with whom Sassoon shared rooms in Pembroke College, Cambridge, during their officer training, was the son of Evan and Ethelinda Thomas of Llanedy Rectory, Glamorgan. This letter, written from his par...
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Journal France and England, June–August 1916 Photograph of Siegfried Sassoon c. 1916 Sassoon’s battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers was held in reserve on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Sassoon was positioned about five hundred yards behind the front line, with a good view—enemy fire permittin...
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Journal November 1915–March 1916 Sassoon’s trench notebooks had several functions. Principally they served as diaries, but he also used them for jotting down notes relating to Army routine, as commonplace books to record extracts from other writers, and for drafting and making fair copies of his own poetry. ‘Brothers’,...
David Jones (1895–1974) Drawing [Sidmouth, 1937?] The poet and artist David Jones joined the 15th Battalion of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in January 1915. In the First World War the number of battalions in regiments of the British Army expanded greatly, but they were seldom all deployed alongside each other. Sassoon, who moved between the 1st, 2nd a...
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) Justice in War-Time Manchester and London: The National Labour Press, Ltd, [1915?] The philosopher Bertrand Russell opposed the First World War from its outset. He was introduced to Sassoon in the summer of 1917 by a mutual acquaintance keen to encourage Sassoon’s idea of making a protest against the War. Justice in War...
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) Notes for a speech at a parliamentary election campaign meeting Blackburn, December 1918 Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) ‘The Case for the Miners’, in a notebook titled Recreations England, April 1921 The general election of December 1918 returned David Lloyd George to power at the head of a Conservative and Liberal coal...
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) ‘Journal: 1921’ London, 1921–1922 A dedication at the front of this volume of Sassoon’s diary reads ‘To myself when I shall have ceased to care about the present’. The excisions visible in this opening indicate that at some point Sassoon cared deeply enough to expunge sections of his record of his life. In the entry fo...
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) ‘“Go, words, on winds of war”’, in a notebook titled Poems England, 1930s–1940s ‘Belsen’ and other poems, in an untitled poetry notebook England, 1940s–1950s By 1939 Sassoon was a nationally-recognized figure from whom editors of literary periodicals naturally requested topical poems about the War, and he produced simi...
Poet and author Siegfried Sassoon was a prolific letter writer and throughout his life maintained a close friendship and correspondence with his mother Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, known affectionately as ‘Ash’.
Siegfried Sassoon was born at Weirleigh outside of the village of Matfield in Kent on 8th September 1886 to Alfred Ezra Sassoon, a member of a wealthy Jewish merchant family, and to Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, who came from a family of prominent sculptors.
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25 de abr. de 2021 · Theresa was known as Theresa, William Hamo as Hamo and Helen as Nello. They were encouraged to excel in their artistic endeavours and were expected to earn their own livings, for Thomas and Mary Thornycroft, although successful, were not wealthy.
Siegfried’s mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was herself an artist of note, and recognised her son’s talent very early on. She encouraged him to work on his poetry and according to Sassoon, had a strong feeling he was destined to become a great poet.
1 de jan. de 2006 · On 30 January 1884, in Kensington parish church, the twenty-two-year-old Alfred married Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, aged twenty-nine, of Melbury Road, Kensington, the daughter of Thomas ...
