Letter from Stanley Unwin to Francis Sheehy Skeffington, 22 November 1915
PUBLISHERS & EXPORTERS Ruskin House,
40, Museum Street, LONDON, W.C. All communications to be
addressed to the Company. November 22nd, 1915 The Editor of
"The Irish Citizen"
12 D'Olier Street,
Dublin. Dear Sir, We are in receipt of your note of the 17th November asking
for a review copy of "Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov, but regret we
are unable to comply with your request, as we have had so many
applications for free copies of this book that we have been compelled
to close our list. If, however, it would be of any service to you,
we shall be pleased to let you have a copy, for the particular purpose
for which you require it, on receipt of half the published price, plus
postage, viz 3/5. Yours faithfully,
GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, Limited Stanley Walsh
Managing Director
Managing Director.
Francis Sheehy Skeffington (1878-1916), journalist, was a prominent feminist, activist and co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise league in 1908. In 1912, he and his wife, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), founded the suffragist newspaper The Irish Citizen. A staunch pacifist and nationalist, Sheehy Skeffington opposed Irish involvement in the Great War. During the Easter Rising, he attempted to organise a civilian defence force to prevent looting and saved the life of a British officer under fire. Arrested on the evening of Tuesday 25 April 1916, Sheehy Skeffington and two other civilians were shot by firing squad on the morning of Wednesday 26 April.
- Stanley Unwin
- Francis Sheehy Skeffington
- 1915-11-22
- Politics
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__3930.html)
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- Place
- Ruskin House,40 Museum Street, London, England
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Stanley Unwin to Francis Sheehy Skeffington, 22 November 1915