Edith Sitwell
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Standard Name: Sitwell, Edith
Birth Name: Edith Louisa Sitwell
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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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Friends, Associates | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
's friends and associates included Edith Sitwell
, whose poems she often published in The Spectator; Storm Jameson
, a political mentor Williams-Ellis, Amabel. All Stracheys Are Cousins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 128 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Mew | |
Friends, Associates | Naomi Royde-Smith | NRS
was a close friend of Rose Macaulay
, with whom in the immediate postwar period she shared entertaining duties at her flat, in something similar to a salon. They apparently met through Macaulay contributing... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | By the time of the move to Tavistock Square, VW
began to socialize more than she had in years. She circulated with Bloomsbury familiars and (re)acquainted herself with Rebecca West
, Rose Macaulay
,... |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | She took up old friendships, making visits out of wartime London to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska
in Gloucestershire and Roger Fry
at Guildford (where Lady Strachey
led the party in evening literary games). She breakfasted regularly with... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Miles | During her years at Bloomsbury, UR met the many distinguished literary figures who were either parishioners or readers at fund-raising events, like T. S. Eliot
, John Middleton Murry
, Edith Sitwell
, Wilfrid Meynell |
Friends, Associates | Bryher | The flat became a gathering place for friends including the Sitwells (Bryher grew especially close to Edith
and Osbert
), Elizabeth Bowen
, and Ivy Compton-Burnett
. Schaffner, Perdita. “Keeper of the Flame”. H.D., Woman and Poet, edited by Michael King, National Poetry Foundation, pp. 27-33. 32 Bryher,. The Days of Mars. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 18 |
Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | MM
corresponded with T. S. Eliot
from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D.
and of Bryher
, and her editors believe that every one of her five... |
Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Quin | In Connecticut she attended a party to celebrate the recent publication of Marguerite Young
's novel Miss MacIntosh, my darling. Commenting on this nearly two-thousand-page tome, AQ
noted if Edith Sitwell
had written a... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Spark | MS
became extremely close to her landlady, Tiny Lazzari
, who despite her name was Irish, and who not only lodged her but delighted in feeding her and acting as a gatekeeper to keep out... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | VT
strengthened her bonds with Osbert
, Edith
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, and formed others with Peggy Guggenheim
, Isak Dinesen
(Karen Blixen), François Mitterand
, and Cecil Beaton
. Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 124-5, 135 |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Stein | |
Friends, Associates | Aldous Huxley | Those friends of Aldous whom his wife Maria referred to as the brilliant ones, Bedford, Sybille. Aldous Huxley. Knopf; Harper & Row. 105 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Trefusis | Around the same period she began friendships with, among others, Edith
, Osbert
, and Sacheverell Sitwell
, Rebecca West
, and Nancy Cunard
. She writes in her memoir of the scintilliating Sitwell triumverate... |
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