Book

A Walk into Other Worlds with Dante

Title: A Walk into Other Worlds with Dante
Name: Brainbrigge, Marion Sophia (1849-1928)
Link to full text: A Walk into Other Worlds with Dante - Hathi Trust (Search only); Digitised by Cornell University
Description: "This book is a reply to many requests for simple information from those who say 'Dante is too deep' for them.
[...]
It is not a given to all to have leisure or inclination either to penetrate deeply enough into the long mazes of the Divina Commedia, or to study the Italian language sufficiently to appreciate the subtle touches and apt allusions which , when pointed out, are such a help and delight. Therefore the most notable of these, with explanations, have been collected and arranged in this little book, so that they be readily found and assimilated with very small effort by those who have only few moments to spare in this hurrying age.
[...]
This is not a commentary nor is the book compiled from an argumentative or historical point of view: it is merely an endeavour to gather together in a. compact form some of the beautiful and elevating thoughts [...] Together with Dante's own words quotations are added from commentaries on Dantesque literature, which has been so largely enriched by the grand perception and laborious study of the finest minds since that day when the poet passed.
Type of resource: Book
content: Along with seven plates, the volume features illustration of the White Rose of the Saints from Paradiso hand-painted by Bainbrigge's sister, Edith M. Bainbrigge; Diagram by E. M. Bainbrigge
Language: English
Publisher: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co.
Place of Publication: London
Date of Publication: 1914
Era: 1900–1939
Type of reception: Critical; Non creative
Genre of reception: Handbook (Beginners level)
Number of volumes: 1
Format: 8vo
Physical Description: xv, 253, 7 pl. (incl. front) port. 21 cm; 7 plates (including front) portrait.

Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and illustration of figures and stars on upper board, gilt lettering on spine.
Circulation: advertised in: The Times;
The Times Literary Supplement;
The Illustrated London News;
Westminister Gazette;
Sheffield Telegraph;
Birmingham Daily Post;
The Sphere
Circulation: Price: 6s. net.; The book is marketed along with other Italy and Italian-related titles from George Routledge's Broadway House List. This include Dante-titles such as D. G. Rossetti's translation of the Vita Nuova, Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy. Along with them, Elizabeth Haig's Floral Symbolism of the Great Masters, and a number of guide books by Douglas Sladen and J. C. Hare.
Reception: reviewed in: The Scotsman - 20th July 1914
"Deeper books might be needed by profound students; but this is a capital book for a beginner in Dante study".

Sheffield Daily Telegraph - 20th August 1914
"It is delightful to discover how great is the interest in Italian literature, and Dante has a fascination fro very many minds. Here is another Dante book, whose charm of letterpress is wonderfully helped out by the full-page plates, of which there are eight." The reviewer misgenders the author by writing "Mr [?] Bainbrigge himself shall describ the content of his book."

Birmingham Daily Post - 4th September 1914
"The work of selection and compression must have been very difficult and, while such work will always bear some marks of individual predilection, it has in this instance been carried out with careful discriminating thought"

The Spectator - 3rd October 1914

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 25th November 1914
"It is a modestly, sensibly and most pleasently written book which should amply serve is unambitious purpose of indicating some of the beautiful and most significant passages and thoughts of the immortal poem. The writer has studied her subject well and lovingly, and has also made herself familiar with much of its vast literature".
Provenance: Public, Circulating or Subscription Libraries: Biblioteca del Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux (biblioteca circolante 1864-1892)
Provenance: Historical Libraries: British Institute of Florence, Library, donated by the London Dante Society (1934); British Institute Florence, Bookplate
Current Holding Libraries: Britain

University of Bristol Libraries
University of Cambridge Libraries
Cardiff University Libraries
University of Edinburgh Libraries
University of Leeds Library
University of Manchester Library
National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
University of Oxford Libraries
University of Southampton Library
National Library of Scotland
British Library; UCL Library Services University of Reading Library; Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper: ex libris H. St. John Brooks. From the Library of Huxley St. John Brooks, acquired 1926, with his bookplate.
Inscription in pencil on half title page: [G.J.] Amery, Ruhleben 1916.; Ireland
Trinity College Dublin Library

Italy
Biblioteca comunale Adolfo Betti - Bagni di Lucca (LU)
Biblioteca della Società napoletana di storia patria - Napoli (NA)
Biblioteca del Centro dantesco - Ravenna (RA)