Osbert Sitwell

Several of AL 's literary friends—Harold Acton , Osbert Sitwell —left more or less fictionalised portraits of her; but these turn much more on her character and public image than on her writing.

During the 1920s she came to count the Sitwells among her close friends. She once sent a laurel crown to Edith Sitwell , and she attended the first performance of Façade at the Aeolian Hall

Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton , Ronald Firbank , the Sitwellbrothers , and the young composer William Walton .

This suggests that QDL had some part in F. R. Leavis's domination of the teaching of English at Cambridge (through ideas linked to the schools of Practical Criticism and New Criticism), with his published works...

Her contributors included Jane Barlow , Frank Betts , Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush) , M. St Clare Byrne , Elsa L. Duff , A. P. Herbert , Aldous Huxley , E. H. W. Meyerstein ,...

Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...

Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, and found intimidatingly intellectual, included T. S. Eliot , Osbert , Edith , and Sacheverell Sitwell , various members...

Between 1921 and 1929 AH published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry. He also published poems in Wheels, the experimental poetry series edited by Edith Sitwell

SH loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. During her childhood she enjoyed visiting the Scarborough home of the SitwellOsbert SitwellSacheverell Sitwell s; the family of poets and artists left...

NH and Osbert Sitwell together published The People's Album of London Statues, with drawings by her and text by him.

She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry at Guildford (where Lady Strachey led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with...

Several of old friends (including Osbert and Edith Sitwell ) sat for Hamnett for their portraits. Edith Sitwell's portrait especially attracted a good deal of comment.

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...

This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, and the later course of the book remains disordered, offering the same flow of...

RG was critical of the distaste with which English writers Osbert and Edith Sitwell or Vita Sackville-West had regarded their American lecture audiences. About her coast-to-coast tour with her husband she later wrote, I took...