Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Edith Sitwell
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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.
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...
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...
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.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
114
LR
sets out to free the poet from the restrictions imposed by the synthetic or collective notion...
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
and the later course of the book remains disordered, offering the same flow of...
Textual Production
Aldous Huxley
Between 1921 and 1929 AH
published fifteen works: novels, collections of short stories, works of non-fiction, and books of poetry.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
356-7
He also published poems in Wheels, the experimental poetry series edited by Edith Sitwell
Textual Production
Wyndham Lewis
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...
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.
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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...
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.
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
They had written on 11 June...
Timeline
1 January 1913: Harold Monro opened the Poetry Bookshop at...
January 1933: The first number appeared of the periodical...
Writing climate item
January 1933
The first number appeared of the periodicalNew Verse, edited by Geoffrey Grigson
; it ran until May 1939.
Early 1936: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by...
Writing climate item
Early 1936
The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts
(who was put forward for this task by T. S. Eliot
), set out to define the modern movement, not just chronologically but according...
8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...
December 1965: Actress Peggy Ashcroft toured Norway with...
Women writers item
December 1965
Actress Peggy Ashcroft
toured Norway with a show of her own devising, Words on Women and Some Women's Words, originally written for performance at London University
.
Texts
Sitwell, Edith. A Poet’s Notebook. Macmillan, 1943.
Sitwell, Edith. Alexander Pope. Faber and Faber, 1930.
Sitwell, Edith. Aspects of Modern Poetry. Duckworth, 1934.
Sitwell, Edith. Bath. Faber and Faber, 1932.
Sitwell, Edith. Bucolic Comedies. Duckworth.
Sitwell, Edith. Clowns’ Houses. Blackwell.
Sitwell, Edith. Collected Poems. Macmillan, 1957.
Sitwell, Edith. Elegy on Dead Fashion. Duckworth.
Sitwell, Edith. English Women. William Collins, 1942.
Sitwell, Edith. Façade. Favil.
Sitwell, Edith. Fanfare for Elizabeth. Macmillan, 1946.
Sitwell, Edith. Gardeners and Astronomers. Macmillan, 1953.
