id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5524 Siegfried Sassoon - Wikipedia .html text/html 6435 704 73 Since his father had been disinherited from the Sassoon fortune for marrying a non-Jew, Siegfried had only a small private income that allowed him to live modestly without having to earn a living (however, he would later be left a generous legacy by an aunt, Rachel Beer, allowing him to buy the great estate of Heytesbury House in Wiltshire.[4]) His first published success, The Daffodil Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. He had hoped that Ronald Knox, a Roman Catholic priest and writer whom he admired, would instruct him in the faith, but Knox was too ill to do so.[23] The priest Sebastian Moore was chosen to instruct him instead, and Sassoon was admitted to the faith at Downside Abbey in Somerset.[24] He also paid regular visits to the nuns at Stanbrook Abbey, and the Abbey press printed commemorative editions of some of his poems. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5524.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5524.txt