Osbert Sitwell

Standard Name: Sitwell, Osbert

Connections

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Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
By the time of the move to Tavistock Square, VW began to socialize more than she had in years. She circulated with Bloomsbury familiars and (re)acquainted herself with Rebecca West , Rose Macaulay ,...
Education Doreen Wallace
At Somerville DW became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers (their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain , Winifred Holtby , and theSitwells .
Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press.
57
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Trefusis
Violet Keppel (later VT ) began a short engagement to Osbert Sitwell .
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
118
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
VT strengthened her bonds with Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim , Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), François Mitterand , and Cecil Beaton .
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
124-5, 135
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
Around the same period she began friendships with, among others, Edith , Osbert , and Sacheverell Sitwell , Rebecca West , and Nancy Cunard . She writes in her memoir of the scintilliating Sitwell triumverate...
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. Rupert Hart-Davis.
81-3
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. Rupert Hart-Davis.
84
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES edited the Fourth Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
85
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
With her brothersSacheverell Sitwell , ES edited a Fifth Cycle of her poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
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Textual Production Edith Sitwell
ES and her brothersSacheverell Sitwell issued a Sixth and final Cycle of their poetry anthology, Wheels.
Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Rupert Hart-Davis.
87
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.
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Sitwell
Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell were both introduced to the world of the imagination by Edith, and considered their elder sister as a mentor. Later, the three of them became what Osbert termed a closed corporation...
Family and Intimate relationships Edith Sitwell
Her brother Osbert was found in summer 1950 to have Parkinson's disease. His health deteriorated steadily. As well as being grieved by his illness, Edith was angered by David Horner's behaviour in this emergency.
Textual Production Edith Sitwell
She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge .
Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson.
prelims
The endpapers reproduce her obituary from The Times. ES had previously written...

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Texts

Cunard, Nancy. “Seven Poems”. Wheels, edited by Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell, Longmans, Green, 1916.
Hamnett, Nina, and Osbert Sitwell. The People’s Album of London Statues. Duckworth, 1928.
Sitwell, Edith, and Osbert Sitwell. Twentieth Century Harlequinade, and Other Poems. Blackwell, 1916.
Sitwell, Edith et al., editors. Wheels. B. H. Blackwell, 1921.