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.
Connections
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jeni Couzyn | Jeni's sisters offered early poetic encouragement, and provided a connection between literature, as learned in school, and poems written privately. When she was about fifteen, JC
remembers one of her sisters giving her two LP... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | VT
's two sisters were Felicity, later Lady Cory-Wright
, and the much younger poet, playwright, and actress Iris Tree
. Iris, who looked up to, admired, and adored Viola, published three volumes of poetry... |
Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press. 57 |
Education | Anne Ridler | She lived in a King's College hostel in Queensborough Terrace near Hyde Park,London. The course included lectures on history and literature. The distinguished scholar Jack Isaacs
lectured on Shakespeare
, Donne
, and Milton |
Education | Rumer Godden | RG
's determination to become a writer fuelled a continued self-education. Books were hard to come by in India, yet she managed to find and devour recent publications: Edith Sitwell
's Troy Park and Façade... |
Education | Jeni Couzyn | JC
describes her younger self as a solitary child, rebellious and defiant, challenging everything and everyone. Couzyn, Jeni, editor. The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe Books. 217 |
Anthologization | Iris Tree | Edith Sitwell
included thirty-one poems by IT
in the first four cycles of her serial modernist verse anthology, Wheels. Sitwell, Edith, editor. Wheels. B. H. Blackwell. prelims |
Anthologization | Nancy Cunard | Seven Poems by NC
appeared in Wheels, edited by Edith Sitwell
, the first in a series of six anthologies of new and experimental poetry by that title. Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf. 36 |
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