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.
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Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | It was to have been purposely old-fashioned, to combat the modernism represented by Edith Sitwell
and her brothers. |
Textual Features | Vita Sackville-West | Here VSW
mentioned her dissatisfaction with the pessimism of T. S. Eliot
and the self-advertising of the Sitwells
, and voiced the hope for a poetry capable of seriousness and noble thoughts. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 168 |
Textual Features | Rosamond Lehmann | They published some distinguished names—including Edith Sitwell
, Rose Macaulay
, and Ivy Compton-Burnett
—and some promising newcomers, including Margaret Lane
, Margiad Evans
, and Jean Howard
. Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus. 240-1 |
Textual Features | Iris Tree | The poems reflect key preoccupations of their time and of IT
's literary circle. They are shaped by admiration for the traditions and themes of later nineteenth-century French poetry, the Symbolists, and such English poets... |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | 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. Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch. 86 |
Residence | Susan Hill | SH
loved Scarborough, which she calls a dramatic town, both scenically and climatically. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 139 |
Reception | Queen Elizabeth I | The immense and long-lasting interest aroused by Elizabeth is not, of course, primarily due to her writings, any more than were the adulation paid her during her lifetime, the cult of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen... |
Reception | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
, then aged seventy, discovered DW
's writing in 1935 when he was ill in bed and was at work on The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. He was feeling disillusioned... |
Reception | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Unusually for her, PHJ
felt convinced on completing this novel that she had written something really good. She was surprised when time went by with no response from her publishers. On enquiry, she found that... |
Reception | Bryher | The novel features an introduction by Edith Sitwell
, Bryher's friend and occasional collaborator. Sitwell's piece closes with her pronouncement that Bryher's text is a masterpiece. Sitwell, Edith, and Bryher. “Introduction”. The Fourteenth of October, Collins, pp. 3-5. 5 |
Publishing | Wyndham Lewis | 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. Oldsey, Bernard Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 15. Gale Research. 314 Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. |
Author summary | Iris Tree | Twentieth-century poet IT
published three volumes of poetry in her twenties and thirties and a long poem in her old age. Her poems also appeared in verse anthologies, most notably Edith Sitwell
's Wheels... |
politics | Bryher | H. D.
, Edith Sitwell
, Vita Sackville-West
, Dorothy Wellesley
, T. S. Eliot
, and Walter de la Mare
were among the readers at this event, which also received royal patronage. Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, http://Rutherford HSS. 235 and n45 |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | Persuaded by Edith Sitwell
and Harold Acton
, GS
agreed to a small lecture tour. She lectured about grammar and literature. She was apparently inspired to explicate her ideas on composition, rhythm, repetition and identity... |
Occupation | Nina Hamnett | 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. Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 98-9, 104-5 |
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