Osbert Sitwell

Standard Name: Sitwell, Osbert

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Textual Production Wyndham Lewis
WL 's long satirical poem One-Way Song was published; a self-portrait included therein provoked derisive responses from Edith Sitwell (in I Live under a Black Sun, 1937) and her brother Osbert (in Those Were...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES published a second little poetry book, Twentieth Century Harlequinade, and Other Poems, which included material by both herself and her brother Osbert .
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
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Textual Production Nina Hamnett
The idea for the book was NH 's; Osbert Sitwell supplied the text. Library catalogues today list the book as his, but it was advertised as described by Osbert Sitwell , drawn by Nina Hamnett...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES and her brothersSacheverell Sitwell edited and published a volume entitled Wheels, the first in a poetry anthology series which she made an annual event until 1921.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
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Textual Production Lady Ottoline Morrell
LOM began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
316, 345
She showed drafts to Mark Gertler , Siegfried Sassoon , Walter Turner , and Virginia Woolf ...
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES edited the Second Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
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Textual Production Edith Sitwell
With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES issued the Third Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971.
84
Textual Features Ada Leverson
Her daughter says that her story The Blow, published in a literary magazine in the 1920s (after she had met theSitwells ), was different from anything she had written before.
Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963.
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Residence Susan Hill
SH loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically.
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
139
During her childhood she enjoyed visiting the Scarborough home of the SitwellOsbert SitwellSacheverell Sitwell s; the family of poets and artists left...
Reception Edith Sitwell
The National Portrait Gallery in London held an exhibition of works on ES and her twobrothers , which more than 30,000 people attended.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Reception Lady Ottoline Morrell
Lady Ottoline also appeared as fictional characters in works by Gilbert Cannan , John Cramb , Graham Greene , Constance Malleson , and Osbert Sitwell .
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
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Publishing Nina Hamnett
NH and Osbert Sitwell together published The People's Album of London Statues, with drawings by her and text by him.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Publishing Wyndham Lewis
WL privately published The Apes of God, a satire attacking several writers of the 1920s, including Gertrude Stein , the Bloomsbury Group, and the Osbert SitwellSitwell s.
Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research, 1983, 2 vols.
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Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press, 1996.
politics Bryher
Assisted by Bryher , Osbert Sitwell organized a Reading of Famous Poets, which was held at the Aeolian Hall in London and benefited de Gaulle 's Free French forces.
Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, 1999, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Occupation Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford , novelist, was the club's...

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