Osbert Sitwell

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 ,...

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 ,...

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...

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 .

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.

Osbert Sitwell wrote his approval.

AL sometimes wrote to Osbert Sitwell more than once a day. He called her near-illegible letters the hieroglyphs of the Sphinx.

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.

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.

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...

She also stayed at Mells near Frome in Somerset and at Renishaw Hall in Derbyshire (with Osbert and Edith Sitwell ). From at least 1944 her elder daughter was at her husband's family home, Parfetts...

LOM began work on her memoirs in 1919, and returned to them more seriously in 1925. She showed drafts to Mark Gertler , Siegfried Sassoon , Walter Turner , and Virginia Woolf ...

Lady Ottoline also appeared as fictional characters in works by Gilbert Cannan , John Cramb , Graham Greene , Constance Malleson , and Osbert Sitwell .

In June 1921, they moved the Fellowship Services to the Guildhouse, Eccleston Square, where MR continued to preach until she resigned in December 1936. She resigned because, she said, I have to choose; and...