Osbert Sitwell

The National Portrait Gallery in London held an exhibition of works on ES and her twobrothers , which more than 30,000 people attended.

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...

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.

She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge . The endpapers reproduce her obituary from The Times. ES had previously written...

ES 's grandmother Sitwell engaged Helen Rootham as a governess for Edith; she enlisted the help of eleven-year-old Osbert in making her choice.

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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.