oii_image_credit
Edith Sitwell
-
Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
ES
was an important member of the modernist movement in England. She was primarily a poet and secondarily a literary critic, though her personal polemics, biographies, anthologies, letters, and autobiography all reflect her unique personality and power as a literary stylist.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Nancy Cunard | NC
's poem Wheels gave the title to the series edited by the Sitwells
.Osbert Sitwell Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 36-7 |
| Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | GS
began her period of portraiture around 1908. Her portraits resembled biographical sketches but they were usually more impressionistic than factual.She thought that this genre allowed her to capture the immediacy of characters and to... |
| Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
| Textual Production | Storm Jameson | 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. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row. 524 |
| Textual Production | Gertrude Stein | Edith Sitwell
had hosted a tea for GS
when she came to lecture at Cambridge
and Oxford
earlier that year; in attendance were Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 184 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jenkins | EJ
writes here of her own career and of her memories of encounters in the literary London of the twentieth century, with vivid and idiosyncratic pen-portraits of literary lions. She describes Edith Sitwell
with enormous... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pamela Hansford Johnson | PHJ
includes among her topics Edith Sitwell
, Shakespeare
, Ivy Compton-Burnett
, and Proust
: these are taken up not in formal critique, but in statements of what each meant to her. She writes... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Nina Hamnett | This book opens in 1926, with the author considerably bewildered by [her] somewhat disordered life since [her] return to England, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 38 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Alison Uttley | Her diaries offer an apparently uncensored version of what she toned down in her autobiographical works: an internal world of great passion, where self-confidence and uncertainty, pride and self-pity, joy and anguish are intermingled. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. xii |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Laura Riding | The volume was, says Elizabeth Friedmann
, largely a response to the ideas of Wyndham Lewis
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 114 |
| Travel | Carson McCullers | The couple travelled to France together in 1946, and spent the winter and most of 1947 in Paris, with a side trip to Rome. CMC
loved visiting new places both within and beyond... |
| Travel | Marie Belloc Lowndes | 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... |
Timeline
No timeline events available.
Texts
No bibliographical results available.